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From: rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Why ``Flavors'' ?
Message-ID: <563@m10ux.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 88 16:08:45 GMT
References: <442@crin.crin.fr>
Reply-To: rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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In article <442@crin.crin.fr> masini@crin.crin.fr (Gerald MASINI) writes:
>For some article I am currently writing, I would like to know the genesis
>of the name ``Flavors'', and why precisely ``vanilla'' has been chosen as
>the name of the more general class ?

>Ge'rald MASINI        CRIN (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy)

There are certainly many people more qualified than I to address this 
issue, but I'll tell you what I know.

There was this Ice Cream shop in Cambridge called Steve's.  (It's now
a big ice cream company, but Steve doesn't work there anymore.  I think
he opened a place across the street)  Anyway, when you went to Steve's
you got some VANILLA ice cream and then added MIXINS (like chocolate
flavoring or fruit flavoring or whatever) to make the FLAVOR that you
really wanted.

To the best of my knowledge, this is true.


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