What in the world does it mean to say computational mode of thought?

计算模式的思维,到底是什么意思呢？

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But then what was it that they did mean?

那他们到底是什么意思呢？

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What we're really doing, or I shouldn't say what we're really doing, a basic piece of what we're doing, when we talk about classes or objects, is we're doing something that Professor Guttag mentioned, we're defining an abstract data type.

或者我不应该，说我们真正要做的，当我谈到类或者对象的时候，我们在做的基本的东西，如Guttag教授提到的,就是定义一个抽象数据类型，那么这到底是什么意思呢？

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