From: Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>
Subject: Re: Abstract methods in ADA95
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:04:35 -0500
Date: 2002-10-21T10:04:35-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7IUs9.1536$Bd4.11847@dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DB07F56.1040004@acm.org
> Smalltalk has subprograms. Subprograms had existed for decades under
> that name before Smalltalk. That Smalltalk uses the meaningless term
> "method" to refer to subprograms doesn't change the fact that they're
> subprograms.
They are not subprograms. They are entities that a large
group of English speakers have agreed to identify by the
term "subprograms."
"Words don't have meanings. People have meanings
which they express with words." -- Maldonado
"The map is not the territory." -- McLuhan
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2002-10-17 13:36 Abstract methods in ADA95 Hector Hugo
2002-10-17 14:39 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-10-17 14:50 ` David C. Hoos
2002-10-17 14:57 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-17 14:56 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-17 16:18 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-17 19:26 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-17 19:41 ` David C. Hoos
2002-10-17 20:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-10-18 13:56 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-10-18 0:40 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-18 21:05 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-18 22:00 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-21 14:46 ` Wes Groleau
2002-10-18 3:13 ` SteveD
2002-10-18 14:44 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-18 21:15 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-10-18 21:08 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-18 21:23 ` David C. Hoos
2002-10-18 21:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-18 22:08 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-21 15:03 ` Peter Amey
2002-10-21 15:04 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2002-10-18 22:10 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-19 12:40 ` SteveD
2002-10-19 18:40 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-21 15:34 ` Martin Dowie
2002-10-21 19:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-22 11:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-10-22 12:24 ` Marin David Condic
2002-10-23 9:29 ` Martin Dowie
2002-10-23 10:36 ` Ed Falis
2002-10-23 10:37 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-23 12:54 ` John English
2002-10-23 13:48 ` Martin Dowie
[not found] ` <aornkp$mpf$1@bob.news.rcn.net>
2002-10-19 18:54 ` Crapper (was: Re: Abstract methods in ADA95) Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-21 17:57 ` Abstract methods in ADA95 Programmer Dude
2002-10-21 18:58 ` Jim Rogers
2002-10-21 14:49 ` Wes Groleau
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