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From: "Risto Lankinen" <rlankine@us.oracle.com>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1996/12/19
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Hi!

Matt Austern <austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com> wrote in article
<fxtohfrfpkk.fsf@isolde.mti.sgi.com>...
> Tansel Ersavas <tansel@rase.com> writes:
> 
> > > Is it really?  Can a painting communicate subtle ideas as clearly as
> > > literature?
> > 
> > A picture is worth a thousand words.
> 
> So is a picture worth five hundred words?  Can someone come up with a
> picture that says the same things that this 552 word article does?

Of course no one can.  Put another way, someone might say...

"A high level language statement is worth ten machine instructions"

... and still not be able to represent most given ten machine instructions
in a single statement of any HLL (if at all).

terv: Risto