What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?

James Stroud jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu
Fri May 27 14:31:13 EDT 2005


On Friday 27 May 2005 02:15 am, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> >>>>> "Xah Lee" <xah at xahlee.org> (XL) wrote:
> >
> >XL> Joe: lang x is strongly typed
> >XL> Dave: you mean statically typed?
> >XL> John: no no, that's weakly typed.
>
> That should have been `weekly typed', according to the link below.
> Maybe there is also `daily typed' or `monthly typed'?
>
> >XL> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/jargons.html

"""
If mathematicians are designing computer languages, they would probably just 
called such thing _pure functions_. The term conveys the meaning, without the 
“lamba” abstruseness.
"""

Proposing "jargon" to cure "jargon". Good job! Of course nothing will ever 
rival "jargonize", the crown jewl of all "jargon".

-- 
James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
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Los Angeles, CA 90095

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