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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:39:42 -0400
From: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
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On 4/18/2013 10:30 PM, Mark Janssen wrote:
> Okay, professor is it, master?  What is your provenance anyway?

I'm not a professor, I'm a software engineer.  I'm just trying to help.  
You've made statements that strike me as half-informed. You're trying to 
unify concepts that perhaps can't or shouldn't be unified.  You've 
posted now to three different mailing lists about your thoughts on the 
nature of programming languages and object-orientation, and have 
apparently had little success in interesting people in them.  A number 
of people have suggested that you study more about the topics you're 
interested in, and I agree with them.

--Ned.