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- From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
- Subject: Re: Object orientedness & The Customer (tm)
- Message-ID: <STEVE.92Aug21133041@diana.Advansoft.COM>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 20:30:41 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.170731.12063@twg.com>
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- In-Reply-To: adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu's message of 18 Aug 92 22:19:08
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- In article <ADRIANHO.92Aug18221908@barkley.berkeley.edu> adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu (Adrian J Ho) writes:
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- Consider how the AveragePerson's thought processes are formulated.
- Notice the verb-noun arrangement? Now count the number of OOPLs can
- you think of that present exactly that syntax -- I can't think of any.
- All the OOPLs I know use the noun-verb (object-method) syntax, forcing
- users to continually reverse their instructions and interrupting their
- trains of thought. Small wonder that OOPLs haven't caught on much at
- the user level.
-
- On the contrary, English-speaking people usually think in sentences of
- the form
-
- SUBJECT verb object indirect-object ...
-
- except where the subject is understood, i.e. an imperative sentence.
- Self, for example, gives you an default subject of "self".
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