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Re: Look ... [or: one, two, three, many]

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From: Ozan Yigit
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 1990 21:49
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In article <21126:Dec2614:38:2890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu
(Dan Bernstein) writes:

>A few people have said that I'm cheating in some sense, though they
>can't explain exactly how. Let me draw an analogy.

You are not cheating. You are confusing the intrinsic expressiveness
of a language with that which is programmable in it. The original question
had the former in mind, as I tried to illustrate in my scheme example.

oz
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