...fluke.

Just as this article went to press, we learned that a paper by Les Hatton, ``Does OO Really Match the Way We Think?'' will appear in the May issue of IEEE Software, reporting strong evidence of the negative effects of C++.

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...experiments,

Larry Votta, private communication, Lucent Technolgies.

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...man).

Piltdown man are fossil remains found in England in 1912. The fossils were thought to be a species of prehistoric man and generated scholarly controversy that lasted about 40 years. In 1954, intense re-examination showed the remains to be fraudulent. The fossils consisted of skillfully disguised fragments of a quite modern human cranium (50,000 years old), the jaw and teeth of an orangutan, and the tooth of a chimpanzee.

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...world.

In Ch.9 of The Quark and the Jaguar, W.H. Freeman (1994), Gell-Mann provides a lucid discussion of the relationship between mathematics and science. If science is concerned with describing nature and its laws, then mathematics is not a science, because it is not concerned with nature; it is concerned with the logical consequences of certain assumptions. On the other hand, mathematics can also be viewed as the rigorous study of what might have been, i.e., the study of hypothetical worlds, including the real one. In that case, mathematics is the most fundamental science of all.

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