From: Damien Joly <do_joly@...>
Date: 2002-04-11T07:22:36+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: OO terminology

Personally, instead of "method" I like "behaviour" - but I am an ecologist.

Hal E. Fulton wrote:

> The terminology thread reminded me of something
> I'd always wondered about.
> 
> Where do we get the term "method" anyway? When
> I was introduced to OO in '89, the use of this word
> seemed grossly counter-intuitive to me.
> 
> It reminded me of something a prof of mine told me
> about a psych study in computer usage years ago.
> (His original field was psychology, not comp sci.)
> 
> In the study, they taught brand-new users some basic
> computer skills like use of an editor.
> 
> But they replaced the "real" terminology with gibberish
> (real English words, but hopelessly out of place).
> 
> And their interesting result was: The people taught 
> gibberish seemed to learn just as readily as the others.
> They would calmly spout the nonsense they had been
> taught, saying, "Well, I deliberated these three lines, 
> then I naturalized this paragraph here, then I..."
> 
> After all:
> "What's in a buzzword? That which we call Rational Rose
> By any other name would smell as sweet."
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Hal Fulton
> 
> 
>