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From: paulsc@radio_flyer.WV.TEK.COM (Paul Scherf;685-2734;61-028;692-4142;orca)
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Subject: Re: Objectification
Keywords: objectification, activation, passivation
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Date: 8 Aug 89 16:47:09 GMT
References: <534@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> <15991@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> <539@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
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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
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