From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@no-sp-am.btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Abstract methods in ADA95
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:34:08 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-10-21T15:34:08+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ap16pf$gvg$1@knossos.btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DB1A736.7000506@acm.org
"Jeffrey Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
news:3DB1A736.7000506@acm.org...
> Inventing new terms for well established, existing ideas adds ambiguity.
> In software engineering, that is irresponsible, if not unethical. Using
> such terms compounds that irresponsibility. I was appalled at "method"
> when I first encountered it in the early 1980s and I continue to refuse
> to use it.
Just wondering how you feel about "methodology" - when I were a lad this
meant 'the study of methods' and I'm still willing to get on a hobby-horse
about it! :-)
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-17 13:36 Abstract methods in ADA95 Hector Hugo
2002-10-17 14:39 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-10-17 14:50 ` David C. Hoos
2002-10-17 14:57 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-17 14:56 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-17 16:18 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-17 19:26 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-17 19:41 ` David C. Hoos
2002-10-17 20:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-10-18 13:56 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-10-18 0:40 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-18 21:05 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-18 22:00 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-21 14:46 ` Wes Groleau
2002-10-18 3:13 ` SteveD
2002-10-18 14:44 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-18 21:15 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-10-18 21:08 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-18 21:23 ` David C. Hoos
2002-10-18 21:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-18 22:08 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-21 15:03 ` Peter Amey
2002-10-21 15:04 ` Wes Groleau
2002-10-18 22:10 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-19 12:40 ` SteveD
2002-10-19 18:40 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-21 15:34 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2002-10-21 19:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-22 11:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-10-22 12:24 ` Marin David Condic
2002-10-23 9:29 ` Martin Dowie
2002-10-23 10:36 ` Ed Falis
2002-10-23 10:37 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-23 12:54 ` John English
2002-10-23 13:48 ` Martin Dowie
[not found] ` <aornkp$mpf$1@bob.news.rcn.net>
2002-10-19 18:54 ` Crapper (was: Re: Abstract methods in ADA95) Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-21 17:57 ` Abstract methods in ADA95 Programmer Dude
2002-10-21 18:58 ` Jim Rogers
2002-10-21 14:49 ` Wes Groleau
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