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From: luciw@kodak.UUCP (bill luciw)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Why ``Flavors'' ?
Message-ID: <1226@kodak.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 88 16:06:00 GMT
References: <442@crin.crin.fr>
Reply-To: luciw@kodak.UUCP (bill luciw)
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, NY
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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 ?
>Sorry if the point has been yet discussed in the News, but I've missed it
>anyway.
>Thanx in advance.
>-- 
>Ge'rald MASINI        CRIN (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy)
>uucp:  masini@crin.crin.fr
>post:  CRIN   B.P. 239   54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex   FRANCE
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Sorry about posting this, but our mailer can't reach you ...
It is an interesting bit of trivia, though ...

There is an ice cream parlor in Cambridge called Steve's Ice Cream where it
is possible to "build" your own FLAVOR by using MIXINS.  Vanilla is usually
the starting point.  MIXINS constist of crushed Oreos, M&M's, etc.

Thus the parallel to Object hierarchies without a strict inheritance
hierarchy.

That's the myth I've heard.


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