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From: torkil@psivax.UUCP (Torkil Hammer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Definition of PARADIGM
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Date: 17 Feb 89 00:07:15 GMT
References: <529@sirius.UUCP> <1812@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <1070@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
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In article <1070@oswego.Oswego.EDU> knighton@oswego.oswego.edu (Robert Knighton) writes:
#In article <1812@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
#[stuff deleted]
#
#>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.  :^) :^) :^) :^) :^)
#

Archtype???

You really mean that old paradiwhatever of structural engineering? :-)

Couldn't resist.  Add one jail vote.

torkil