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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: "What is Object-Oriented Programming?" by Stroustrup
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Date: 10 Feb 89 02:09:08 GMT
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From article <529@sirius.UUCP>, by tarry@sirius.UUCP (Steve Tarry):

> This excellent article was published in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Software.
> It is about the best demystification I've seen for buzzwords such as "data
> abstraction" and "object oriented".
> -- 
>   Steve Tarry        ...dartvax.dartmouth.edu!sirius!tarry
>   Northern Telecom, Network Supports Systems Div., Concord, N.H. (for now)

I'll poke through the back issues. I'm looking forward to reading it.
Some demystification is certainly in order.  

** mild flames follow **

I get tired of hearing phrases like, "type-latice reduced
interior state polymorhism", to describe some kind of lookup table.
And when they start renaming everything to make it sound like classical
mathematics, with F-sub-alpha's and so forth, I tune out, even though
[because?] my M.S. is in classical mathematics.

And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without
knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No
exceptions. Grrrrrr.

*****

Ah! I feel much better now, thank you.