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From: mark_lundquist@my-deja.com
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Subject: Re: Parameter Modes, In In Out and Out
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:34:38 GMT
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In article <93n2gk$amr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <3A5E4DE3.C4D55B70@brighton.ac.uk>,
>   John English <je@brighton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Indeed. Java has to be rejected (no MI)
>
> It is interesting to note that there is a strong camp in the
> object oriented world that is very much opposed to MI,
> precisely on the grounds that it destroys the simple clean
> model of inheritance :-)

There's also a faction that opposes Java's static strong typing.

I believe the argument is in the context of dynamic distributed
computing, but I don't understand it well enough to summarize it.

-- mark


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