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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package?
Date: 2000/03/27
Date: 2000-03-27T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8boi58$rtn$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38DF7F38.8D656ABD@lmtas.lmco.com

In article <38DF7F38.8D656ABD@lmtas.lmco.com>,
Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:
> Admittedly a "fluff" question...
>
> I notice that a lot of modern languages choose names/syntax that I
> personally do not find intuitive. Other languages contain basically
> the same feature but call it by different names (module, etc.). Why
> was "package" considered the intuitive name for this feature?

As you say, fluff. But I looked for information in the Ada83 Rationale
on this topic. I couldn't find an explanation for the name. But I did
find a lot of talk about "modularity" and "modularization", and no talk
about "packaging".


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-03-27  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-27  0:00 Why is it Called a Package? Gary Scott
2000-03-27  0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2000-03-27  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-27  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-28  0:00     ` Gary Scott
2000-03-27  0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-03-27  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-29  0:00     ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-29  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30  0:00         ` Geoff Bull
2000-03-30  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30  0:00             ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-30  0:00               ` David Starner
2000-04-03  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-06  0:00             ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07  0:00               ` Pascal Obry
2000-04-07  0:00                 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-07  0:00                   ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-08  0:00                     ` Florian Weimer
2000-04-09  0:00                       ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-04-07  0:00                   ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-08  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-07  0:00                   ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-04-07  0:00                 ` Paul Graham
2000-04-07  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-07  0:00                 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-08  0:00                     ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07  0:00                 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07  0:00                   ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-07  0:00                     ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-12  0:00                 ` Comment from the trenchs Robert Brantley
2000-04-13  0:00                   ` Jeff Carter
2000-04-17  0:00                     ` Robert Brantley
2000-03-28  0:00   ` Why is it Called a Package? Ken Garlington
2000-03-28  0:00   ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-28  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30  0:00     ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-03-31  0:00       ` Anders Wirzenius
2000-03-29  0:00   ` Florian Weimer
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