Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!microsoft!jimad From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (JAMES ADCOCK) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Evaluating "Object-Oriented" Programming Languages Keywords: object-oriented, programming languages, evaluation, bibliography Message-ID: <10176@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 8 Jan 90 17:49:45 GMT References: <638@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> <706@cui.unige.ch> <644@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (JAMES ADCOCK) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 4 Can you please choose some other discriptor rather than "ad hoc polymorphism" ??? This term is not descriptive, is being applied to a technique that is certainly *not* "ad hoc," and sounds like it is intended to be prejudicial terminology -- which I'm sure was not your intent!