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From: knighton@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Robert Knighton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.software-eng
Subject: Definition of PARADIGM (was Re: "What is Object-Oriented Programming?" by Stroustrup)
Message-ID: <1070@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 14 Feb 89 16:45:01 GMT
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Reply-To: knighton@oswego.oswego.edu (Robert Knighton)
Organization: SUNY College @ Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <1812@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
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>** 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.

Yea and AMEN!!!  I still find his book hard to read after several attempts
with a dictionary by my side.  Yeesh!

>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.

Paradigm: (par-uh-dim, or par-uh-[dime]) 1.  EXAMPLE, PATTERN; esp.:
an OUTSTANDINGLY CLEAR or TYPICAL example or archtype.
[Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary page 853; 1st of two defs.]

so there, now we all should know the particular meaning that usage here
gives this $5.00 word.  :^) :^) :^) :^) :^)


>*****
>
>Ah! I feel much better now, thank you.

So do I, thank you very much!  CAIO!

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