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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




  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-21 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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