At 1:06 PM 8/23/95, Timothy C. May wrote:
Whoah, there!
I wasn't saying we were "quibbling" about definitions, I was saying that different people have different names for things and different interpretations, and that it behooves us to figure out what the real definitions are, the standard names, and not invent new names when existing names will do.
Agreed. My apologies for characterizing it as "quibbling". Chain-gun Hettinga here, type first, and let God sort 'em out. A meta-reference to the problem I was talking about, I suppose. And, given what Perry said later, it's not so much a fight over definitions as I thought.
And that one benefit of class libraries for the "things" of commerce, finance, crypto, etc., may be make it clearer what is being described.
Amen. Tim, just what does "aptical" mean? ;-). Cheers, Bob ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) Shipwright Development Corporation, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 323-7923 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell
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