RE: RPG400-L Digest V3 #207

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Hans.  I thought maybe I had just oversimplified it to get it to a
level of complexity I could cope with. <g>  My daughter's boyfriend, who's
just about to receive his PhD in CS, describes the four and five syllable
words as opportunities for unscrupulous consultants. (No offense to self
employed list members--I did say "unscrupulous." <g>)

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> From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:06 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: RPG400-L Digest V3 #207
> 
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> 
> I don't mean to criticize anyone in particular, but I think a lot of
> people miss the point with OO.  Maybe this is an example of the
> classic prescriptivist/descriptivist debate, but I (as a 
> descriptivist)
> see terms like "polymorphism" and "overloading" and "inheritance" as
> characteristics of OO, and not as a "recipe" for OO.  OO can 
> be learned
> without ever having to memorize the meanings of those fancy 4 and 5
> syllable words adopted by the computer science intelligentsia.  The
> essence of OO can be summed up using common one syllable words like
> "is" and "has".
> 
> Cheers!  Hans
> 
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
> 
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