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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: I use Eiffel! and other "strange tongues"!
Date: 1997/08/02
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<<<<>         I think OOP is the terminal paradigm. It is like the wheel.
> We're there. We've arrived at the proper way to build software.
> We may make some minor adjustments in the future but the paradigm
> itself will be our computing core for hundreds, if not thousands
> of years. But that's just speculation of course.
>>

If this were true would one not expect at least a fair number of C++
programs to use this paradigm. The great majority do not. I actually
wonder whether in a conversation like this people are even vaguely
talking about the same thing, I suspect not!