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Subject: Re: Boo for "Yea!"
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Re: Horrible computer science textbooks, that can't be understood unless
you know the material already.

This is a syndrome familiar to every technical writer or editor. I call it 
"expert's mind": a pathological inability to remember the plight of the
ignorant. Most unsparing in young technical people, and characterized
by word salad consisting of words such as "turkey" and "nop".