Re: Wanted: Tower of Hanoi Solution

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From: Jaap Akkerhuis
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 20:28

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In article <1991Mar4.163007.26085@HQ.Ileaf.COM> edb@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Ed Blachman) writes:
 > In article <1991Mar1.191413.7453@mtxinu.COM> jaap@mtxinu.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) writes:
 > > In article <1991Feb28.233931.2615@HQ.Ileaf.COM> edb@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Ed Blachman) writes:
 > > I would consider it cheating.
 > 
 > Excuse me?  Did I miss a smiley here or something?  Bill's Tower of Hanoi
 >  solution was an nroff macro; the one that Paul and I wrote was an Interleaf
 >  macro.  It just happens that the Interleaf macro language is Interleaf
 >  lisp... but how does that make it cheating?
 > 

Bless my ignorance, but last time (a year ago) I looked at Interleaf,
it was using lisp as a language to program user extensions. It had
as much to do with the text processing interleaf performs as, f.i.
the shell has with troff.  So that triggered my comment.

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From: jaap@mtxinu.COM (Jaap Akkerhuis)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Tower of Hanoi Solution
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.202812.17816@mtxinu.COM>
Date: 5 Mar 91 20:28:12 GMT
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