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From: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Writing from right to left
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Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 19:10:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 25 19:10:08 1985
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Summary: 

In article <128@ihn5l.UUCP> ghs1@ihn5l.UUCP (Gary Sitzmann) writes:
>Languages like Greek, Latin, and English
>were written left to right...

I can't speak for Latin, but Greek was not written exclusively left
to right.  It was also written right to left and "plow" fashion (i.e.,
alternate lines written right-to-left and left-to-right back and forth
across the page like a plow in a field).  There may have been a tendency
towards one method or another in any given vicinity, and a tradition of
one style in a given field (such a engraving or poetry), but all were
known and used at various times.

		Ken Arnold
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		Ken Arnold
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Of COURSE we can implement your algorithm.  We've got this Turing
machine emulator...