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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Abstract Factory posted to ACM patterns archive
Date: 1999/03/04
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In article <m3hfs14zhn.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>,
  Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
> I have prepared a short article on how to implement the Abstract Factory
> pattern in Ada95, and posted it to the ACM patterns archive.  The
> introduction of the article appears below.

For those of us not up on the latest hip OO lingo, could someone please
explain what a "factory" is? FOLDOC didn't know, and the ACM website just
assumed I know.

T.E.D.

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