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From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
Subject: Re: Teaching OO
Message-ID: <1995Jan26.085958.18546@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
Summary: How doth the little paradigm ... change
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 08:59:58 GMT
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In article <1995Jan18.141452@hobbit>, hathawa2@marshall.edu (Mark S. Hathaway) writes:
 
> I'd rather work on OO first, but the next paradigm change is on the horizon.

I'll risk the repetition:

There are three ways for the paradigm to change:

	The new way can _refute_ the old.
	The new way can _transcend_ the old.
	The new way can _subsume_ the old.

In the first case, the old way is interesting only as a mistake.
In the second case, the old way is a `special case' that may still be of
	interest, especially when teaching.
In the third case, the old way is one case of many, all of interest.

Now, will the new way refute, transcend, or subsume the old?
-- 
 (This man's opinions are his own.)
 From mole-end				Mark Terribile
 mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
	(Training and consulting in C, C++, UNIX, etc.)
