Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code

From	Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code
Date	2015-05-13 20:20 +1200
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Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/11/2015 8:42 PM, zipher wrote:
>> Huh?  VPython successfully models particle motion simulation with 
>> discrete events.

That's a discrete approximation to a continuous process.
The term "discrete event simulation" is usually used to
mean modelling a process that is inherently discrete,
e.g. sending data packets over a network.

-- 
Greg

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How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Tommy C <tommyc168168@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 08:40 -0700
  Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2015-05-08 18:44 +0000
  Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 10:22 -0600
  Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Tommy C <tommyc168168@gmail.com> - 2015-05-11 08:22 -0700
    Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2015-05-12 17:53 +0100
  Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code zipher <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2015-05-11 08:33 -0700
    Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-05-11 20:24 -0400
      Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code zipher <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2015-05-11 17:42 -0700
        Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-12 11:45 -0400
          Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-05-13 20:20 +1200

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