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- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Path: sparky!uunet!mole-end!mat
- From: mat@mole-end
- Subject: Re: SHlaer-Mellor OOA Model, Problem with definition of Object
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.182320.23503@mole-end>
- Summary: On swamps
- Organization: :
- References: <1992Jul16.203629.22793@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <a68da4e7@infoage.com> <1992Jul20.033757.6207@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:23:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.033757.6207@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, johnson@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Ralph Johnson) writes:
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- > It is probably more correct to say that an objects is an entity in a
- > computer that is supposed to represent some real-world entity (using
- > my terminology of object being instance, of course). You are certainly
- > right that software is a philosophical swamp. And I like real swamps,
- > too!
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- Swamps tend to be poor on structure, but rich in nutrients and teeming
- with life. Philosophy tends to thrive in them.
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
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- uunet!mole-end!mat, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
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