From: paulsc@radio_flyer.WV.TEK.COM (Paul Scherf;685-2734;61-028;692-4142;orca)
Subject: Re: Objectification
Date: 8 Aug 89 16:47:09 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4152@orca.WV.TEK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 539@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
In article <15991@vail.ICO.ISC.COM>, rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes:
> eberard@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Edward Berard) writes about many matters and
> meta-matters roughly related to OOP and moving toward it. All well, but
> couldn't someone come up with a better word (or perhaps I should just say
> "a word") for the concept? "Objectification" is sufficiently ugly and
> silly-sounding (sounds like it came out of a congressional committee) to be
> an impediment to the goals.
I've read several articles mentioning "Objectification",
before I figured out what "Objectification" was.
I liked the terms "activation" (reading in an object) and "passivation"
(writing out an object, so that it may be activated at a later time),
used by Brad Cox in his book.
Paul Scherf, Tektronix, Box 1000, MS 61-028, Wilsonville, OR, USA
paulsc@orca.WV.Tek.com 503-685-2734 tektronix!orca!paulsc
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1989-08-03 21:39 Objectification Edward Berard
1989-08-05 3:07 ` Objectification Jerome_V_Vollborn
1989-08-05 3:43 ` Objectification Jerome_V_Vollborn
1989-08-07 23:00 ` Objectification Dick Dunn
1989-08-08 12:54 ` Objectification Edward Berard
1989-08-08 16:47 ` Paul Scherf;685-2734;61-028;692-4142;orca [this message]
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