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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to pehache    |
|    Re: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcVHlwZS1Cb3VuZCBQcm9jZW    |
|    01 Mar 24 20:57:44    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Fri, 01 Mar 24 12:35:56 +0000, pehache wrote:              > Le 01/03/2024 à 02:51, Lawrence D'Oliveiro a écrit :       >       >> On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 00:14:06 +0100, pehache wrote:       >>       >>> "type-bound procedure" really tells what it is, much more than       >>> "method".       >>       >> It’s a mouthful though, isn’t it. Unlike the concise, and common, term       >> used by every other OO language out there.       >       > Fortran is by far not an OO language, it just incorporates *some* OO       > features on the top of a procedural language. C++ isn't either, by the       > way.              “Procedural” and “object-oriented” are orthogonal concepts: nearly all       “object-oriented” languages are also “procedural”.              Languages that introduce new ground-breaking paradigms can justify making       up new terms for them (like “continuation” in Scheme). If you’re just       borrowing concepts from other languages, making up your own terms just       makes it look like you are trying to obscure the fact that you’re       borrowing.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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