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From: oz@ursa.ccs.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Subject: Re: ap
In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of Wed, 05 Jun 1991 01: 36:32 GMT
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References: <16852@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Jun04.182921.1685@convex.com>
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 15:32:38 GMT


Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:

   You're obviously a small-is-beautiful person, one valuing aesthetics over
   utility.  Fine.

This is utterly silly. Just because one language designer* could not pull
it off doesn't mean size, aesthetics and utility are incompatible. If you
must have an excuse to justify syntactic and semantic mess with a kitchen
sink attachment, try to think up something more creative.

oz
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