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- From: shenkin@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
- Subject: Re: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
- Organization: Dept. of Chem, Barnard College, Columbia U, New York
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:35:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.004523.20552@dscomsf.desy.de> Hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
- >...I'm
- >waiting to find a label on toasters saying "object oriented" - you give the
- >toaster object a "bread" message and it returns a "toast" message...
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- According to the fine print on my toaster, the "bread" is the data, the
- "toast" is the output, and the little knob that you set to tell the toaster
- how dark you want the toast is the message.
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- -P.
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