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- From: tomster@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Thomas Richard Dibble)
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- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: FREE Software -- Download Envelop Engine Today
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 04:52:54 -0500
- Organization: WPI Education, Inc.
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- 24 Jan 1996 21:38:40 GMT
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- >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew B Kennel <mbk@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN> writes:
- Matthew> Joseph F. Meyer (joemeyer@merle.acns.nwu.edu) wrote:
-
- Matthew> From their website: -------------------
- Matthew>
- Matthew> Envelop is the next-generation visual development tool that
- Matthew> delivers the power of object-oriented development without the
- Matthew> pain. Envelop's intuitive and extensible visual object
- Matthew> development environment and its familiar Basic language make
- Matthew> application, component and tool development easy. Using Envelop's
- Matthew> simple "copy and specialize" model, you can reap the benefits of
- Matthew> object inheritance and polymorphism, without learning any new
- Matthew> syntax.
- Matthew>
- Matthew> -------------------
- Matthew>
- Matthew> Is "Copy and specialize" model of 'object orientation' for Basic
- Matthew> otherwise known as "cut and paste"?
-
- I believe it refers to copying an object and then "specializing" it by
- adding new properties/methods/etc to it. Not sure how this is different
- from VB's approach.
-
- ---- Tom Dibble
-