[LINK] Microsoft is dead

[Rick Welykochy]

Paul Brooks wrote:

> (and recalling that quip about the lurker resurrecting a discussion six 
> months on - I think I recall a link discussion about the word 
> 'paradigm', very similar to the recent discussion about 'space'.
> Certainly 'paradigm' is a bigger 'shudder word' to me than 'space' )

Paradigm is certainly valid and correct in the context of
computer programming languages. The word has been used for
years by all and sundry, esp. language designers.

Just because marketing droids overuse and kill off perfectly
good words does not mean we have to eschew their proper use.


cheers
rickw



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