From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Loryn Jenkins Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops) Date: 1998/09/06 Message-ID: <35F1BB50.C57557E1@s054.aone.net.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 388259403 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <35f23ce2.7649859@news.erols.com> <6snn1b$c90$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35ef7dff.24318728@news.erols.com> <35f79e53.98130474@news.erols.com> <6ssb20$c99$1@hirame.wwa.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.mel.aone.net.au 905034616 12807 203.102.238.34 (5 Sep 1998 22:30:16 GMT) Organization: TekRite Pty Ltd Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: loryn@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Sep 1998 22:30:16 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-05T22:30:16+00:00 List-Id: > I haven't read this book, so I can't say if it is good or bad. Probably it > is very good. However, I don't recognize Mill's authority to add to the > definition of SP. Dijkstra coined the term, he has the right to say what > gets added to it, and what gets taken away from it. That's getting a bit extreme, isn't it, Robert? Academics are forever renegotiating the boundaries in any area of discourse. I know, in my area, Systemic-Functional Linguistics, there is an awful lot of discussions as to the details, goals, methods and boundaries. To alienate every academic working within the tradition other than the founder (Halliday) would seem to me to be nonsense. Loryn Jenkins