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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 11cae8,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid11cae8,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: pontius@btv.ibm.com (Dale Pontius) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1997/01/02 Message-ID: <5ago1b$ndi@mdnews.btv.ibm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 207297714 references: <5acihm$5uj@news3.digex.net> <32CBC8FC.7079@ix.netcom.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: IBM Microelectronics Division mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lnag.java,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-01-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <32CBC8FC.7079@ix.netcom.com>, Mike Anderson writes: > Ell wrote: >> >> In this thread someone said assembler was "real" and higher level >> languages were abstractions above that. I always thought voltage >> states/levels were real and that assembler was an abstraction of voltage >> states/levels. >> >> Elliott > > I've never heard this one before. It's great! > ....Mike Nah! Quantum probabilities and wave functions are real. Reality is a perceptual convenience. Dale Pontius (NOT speaking for IBM)