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| (...) I think that would be great!!! Like I said, if you can dig out that reference to the fellow from MIT (I think his first name is Fred) and his work on idioms, that would make it even better... I am so bumming that I can't find it. It's not on (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) Yup, that certainly is a large part of it, and I don't think there is any point in my life where my skill (or lack thereof) at the two systems was equal therefore allowing a valid comparison. I think there is something else though, a mindset, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Nicole, my sincere condolences to you and to all of Ken's family and friends. Ken was a character, and part of the spirit of LUGNET. I also want to say thank you for keeping us informed of what was happening, and letting us know the outcome (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer)
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| (...) I sit firmly in the 'sort of don't' camp. I'm going to do a little more work on this tonight, particularly in terms of the ways in which Meccano models civils better than Lego (in my opinion none). (...) One of the reasons why I never liked (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) Because you know all the idioms. To draw an analogy, I can code in C++ or Java a lot faster than I can in Lisp, because I know more idioms and patterns. That doesn't (in and of itself) make C++ *better* than Lisp, just different. You need a (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic)
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