Re^3: poll ideas quest 2010

Stanislaw Lem for writing The Cyberiad, coining the term 'constructor' in 1967.

Wait, what? How could he coin that term? He didn't even write in English.

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Re^4: poll ideas quest 2010 by Illuminatus (Curate) on Jun 16, 2010 at 12:33 UTC
you say potato... When it was translated to English in 1972, that's the word they used for whatever Polish word occurred in the original. I am completely ignorant of Polish, however, so I cannot say whether the word Lem used in his book is the same one current Polish programmers use when talking about OOP. fnord	[reply]