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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
Date: 1997/02/25
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In article <Pine.SGI.3.95.970224163110.19651B-100000@shellx.best.com> Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com> writes:

> 	"Category" is becoming one of those terms like "operator". I know 
> the term from abstract algebra, but software folk use it in at least three
> ways:

Right.  Head for the hills!!


> (2) The way I know (and love), from abstract algebra (any number of books
>     discuss this, the one by Hilton&Wu is where I learned it)

Check!  I got it from Saunders MacLane's "classic".

/Jon
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