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From: mcintyre@csv.rpi.edu (David McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: PARADIGM FLAME
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 14:06:06 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 14:06:06 1987
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Keywords: paradigm != model

In article <236@titn.TITN> jordan@titn.TITN (Jordan Bortz) writes:
>I'm sick and tired of wading through countless object oriented documents,
>each one attempting to outdo the other in terms of raping the word
>paradigm.......
>
>So what does paradigm mean?
>
>According to Webster's Ninth:
>
>Paradigm: 1: EXAMPLE, PATTERN esp. an outstandingly clear or
>typical example or archetype (looking up archetype reveals PROTOTYPE
>as a definition) 2: an example of a conjugation
>or declension showing a word in all its inflectional forms.
>
>So a PARADIGM is an EXAMPLE! and *NOT* a MODEL or PHILOSOPHY:

The dictionary is generally a bad place to look up the meaning of a
technically-used word.  Dictionaries are often 10 or 20 years behind
the times with even normally-used words, let alone technical phrases.

For a reference on how dictionaries cope with the changing language,
see the Newsweek from about 3 weeks ago (the one with Bork on the
cover).  They mention many words and their new and old dictionaries.

If we were always restricted to using a word's dictionary meaning,
the language would never grow with us.  We must be free to
appropriately expand our language.



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