In article <73j4o2$npf$1@cf01.edf.fr>, "Pascal Obry"
wrote:
>> Xavier Nicollin a �crit dans le message <365BD117.3EAE@imag.fr>...
>>
>> >robinsoj@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>> >
>> >By the way, I have a syntactic question about the parsing of the
>> >expression ``Abstract Data Type'': should it be undertood as
>> >``(Abstract Data) Type'' or as ``Abstract (Data Type)''. In other words,
>> >which one is abstract, the data or the type? [...]
>> [...]
>>
>> And you are wrong about the francophone peoples. I've never heard a guy
>> saying "Type abstrait de donnees''.
Not that simple. You haven't, but I have. Not relevant, in fact.
This is similar to the (IMHO stupid) question of bottles that are either
half-full or half-empty. ___They are BOTH.___
Instead of asking whether the interpretation is (ad)t or a(dt), wouln't we
ask what every interpretation could bring to the understanding of
the underlying concept, which is nethertheless unique ?
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Hein, quoi, quelle annee dix-neuf cent nonante dix ?
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