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Re:Computer Science: "an Alzheimer's patient who has forgott... by ianbishop on Sunday July 05, 2009 @09:48PM (#688962)
> Many such authors think "object oriented" or other fancy chinese words like polymorphism mean something which it doesn't, really.

I don't know that 'polymorphism' is a 'fancy chinese word' or really just an attempt to bridge a definition which had already existed for a hundred years which had a common contextual meaning.

The number of fallacies and blind ignorance in this post is absolutely astonishing.

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Re:Computer Science: "an Alzheimer's patient who has forgott... by mahmud on Sunday July 05, 2009 @11:19PM (#689072)
Polymorphism, and really, all of Object Orientation is a bit older than "a hundred years".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Forms

Plato was a Smalltalker.

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