Suggestions for good programming practices?

[Peter Hansen]

Aahz wrote:
> 
> In article <bko7fa.9t.ln at grey.aerojockey.localdomain>,
> Carl Banks  <imbosol at vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> >* Learn how references and the object system work as soon as possible.
> 
> ObBrokenRecord: "bindings", not "references".

I haven't had a record player for a while :-) so would you please
expand on that?  I've adopted "references" without giving it any
thought.  Why is that not as good as "bindings"?

Thanks.

-Peter