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From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan)
Subject: Re: Real OO
Date: 1996/05/01
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Date: 1996-05-01T00:00:00+00:00
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bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes:

 >Well, words change their meaning, and get additional meanings.  After
 >all, think about an Italian chef admonishing us that "spaghetti" is
 >really a kind of pasta, and the term shouldn't be evilly hijacked to
 >talk about gotos.  I've seen the term "spaghetti" used quite a few times
 >to describe messy multiple inheritance patterns.

I'd just tell the chef that "hijacking" is a violent act of using a
death threat to force an airplane or other transportation vehicle to
be taken to a different destination; and the term shouldn't be evilly
misappropriated to talk about metaphors.

:)

                                -- Adam