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From: rob@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere)
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Subject: Re: Just Wondering
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Date: 25 Apr 89 04:18:16 GMT
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In article <1318@ns.network.com> ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) writes:
>I continue to believe that a trained English reader is essentially a
>monocase device.  The casing rules that exist mostly don't serve to
>disambiguate otherwise identical terms, and when they do they are mostly
>not followed; yet people can read the stuff anyway.

English != C

A trained English reader does not a trained C programmer make, nor
vice versa.

SR