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From: tony_mak_makonnen@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: PARADIGM FLAME
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Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 03:29:21 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 31 03:29:21 1987
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I agree that too often hard and obscure words are used where simpler
ones could do the job . The problem with catchy terms is that each
person is allowed their own meaning . If the flamer had checked the newer
Dictionary he would have noticed that meaning model has been added .
It is possible that he missed the paradigm story which hit academia
with Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolution . From
the last five lines of that book I am  quoting the following  and
will substitute "progamming style" for the original "Scientific
knowledge" .
   Programming style , like language. is intrinsically the common
property of a group or else nothing at all. To understand it we shall need
to know the special characteristics of the groups that create and use it.

i submit that the combination of philosophy and methods which one seeks
to discover in the study of such groups is in fact their paradigm (my words).
To the degree that reference is made to that which is believed the common
property of object programmers the use of the term  paradigm is justified

















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