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Re: Reply to Ousterhout's reply (was Re: Ousterhout and Tcl ...)

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Subject: Re: Reply to Ousterhout's reply (was Re: Ousterhout and Tcl ...)
From: thantos@uxtlaser.alf.dec.com (Alex Williams)
Date: 17 Apr 1997 13:16:56 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Digital UNIX Technical Support
In article <mls-1604970159200001@mls.dialup.access.net>,
Michael L. Siemon <mls@panix.com> wrote:
>Try representing the _Iliad_ as either an integer or a list. Just try;
>I want to see what kind of idiocies you will commit. That it is possible
>I willingly acknowledge; that it is sane, I seriously doubt.

Last I checked, the ILIAD was a document and, as such, could be
treated as a /list/ of characters.  Oddly enough, so is a string a
/list/ of characters.  Seems to me, sir, you cannot see the forest for
the trees.

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