landauer@morocco.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer) (12/14/89)
As Tim Budd put it (in comp.object), [Paradigm] " ... is one of those words that once was defined to mean one thing, and has now been totally redefined by our field." (Methodology is another such word.) Oddly, at about the same time, there were complaints in alt.folklore.computers about the way that the media has changed the meaning of "hacker". I guess my purpose in this little missive is to point out the hypocrisy of complaining about the newly-changed meaning of "hacker" while using the newly-changed meanings of "paradigm" and "methodology". (Not that any of the mentioned or referenced posters (aha! another one!) did this.) Face it, words change their meanings over time. They always have, and always will, and there will *always* be people complaining about it. A "computer" used to be a person who was good at arithmetic. Don't worry so much about it. I'm sure that "it's" and "its" will be interchangeable real soon now ... they're already equivalent on USENET! :-( :-) :-( :-) :-( :-) Followups (if any) would be more appropriate in sci.lang than anywhere else that I can think of ... but what's really needed for this sort of thing is a new "talk.lang" group. (No, don't send me any votes!) -- Doug Landauer -- landauer@eng.sun.com or ...!sun!landauer _ Sun Microsystems, Inc. -- SPD, SET, Languages La no ka 'oi.
bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) (12/15/89)
In article <129213@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> landauer@sun.UUCP (Doug Landauer) writes: |As Tim Budd put it (in comp.object), [Paradigm] " ... is one of those |words that once was defined to mean one thing, and has now been totally |redefined by our field." paradigm == 20 cents, it sez here... -- ^^ Bruce Becker Toronto, Ont. w \**/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `/v/-e BitNet: BECKER@HUMBER.BITNET _/ >_ "The Rounder I Go, the Faster I Get" - Tenderfeed for QuodUseNet