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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a602a7f65bebaea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-21 08:15:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.infoave.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Abstract methods in ADA95 References: <20021017-143635-828420@foorum.com> <3DAF0ECE.7080204@acm.org> <3DB0785A.1040304@acm.org> <3DB07F56.1040004@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7IUs9.1536$Bd4.11847@dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:04:35 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1035212675 151.168.133.155 (Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:04:35 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:04:35 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29987 Date: 2002-10-21T10:04:35-05:00 List-Id: > 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