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From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: IBM Systems Journal comments on Eiffel
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Date: 10 Jan 90 23:25:01 GMT
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In-reply-to: korson@hubcap.clemson.edu's message of 9 Jan 90 19:46:46 GMT
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In article <7617@hubcap.clemson.edu> korson@hubcap.clemson.edu (Timothy Korson) writes:

   "Other languages have been developed by adding object-oriented constructs
   to existing procedural or functional languages.  For example, the languages
   EIFFEL, C++, and Objective-C are extensions of the C language. FLAVORS is
   an object-oriented extention to LISP..."

   From the article "Object-Oriented Programming" by Dyke and Kunz in
   IBM SYSTEMS JOURNAL, Vol 28, NO. 3, 1989.

Typical IBM misspeak.  This is just like saying that the XEDIT editor on
IBM mainframes is the only usable editor in the world.  If only it were
even usable. . .

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