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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
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Subject: Re: State machine representation
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* Erik Naggum
> What you have missed is that languages are the products of evolution.
> Just learn the language at hand.  Do not compare it to anything else,
> or you will continue to write and think in whatever you compare with.

* Dave Roberts
| I think that is foolish.

  OK.  Goodbye, then.

-- 
Erik Naggum | Oslo, Norway                                      2004-032

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.