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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: logically weird loop
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:43:29 -0800
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
> [...]
>
>>                               People who think programming in C++
>> or Simula encourages object-oriented programming don't understand
>> the term.
>
> Or they use the term differently than you do.  Language is not static.

There's a confusion here.  I didn't say they misunderstand the
term;  what I said is they don't understand the term.  That is
an essential difference.