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From: dwp@willett.UUCP (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth in PostScript
Message-ID: <510.UUL1.3#5129@willett.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 90 03:26:23 GMT
References: <22573@mimsy.umd.edu>
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In <22573@mimsy.umd.edu>, don@brillig.umd.edu (Don Hopkins) writes:
>                                                But comparing
> programming languages is like comparing mind altering chemicals.
> Metaphores can only go so far. After a certain point, you just have to
> try them yourself or accept what experienced users tell you on faith.
> Caffeine does different things to me than nicotine. The most I can
> tell you in so many words is that one makes me stay up and one makes
> me throw up. If you want to know more you're going to have to try them
> yourself.
Or I could hook you up and get EKG readings.  I dislike this tendency to
mysticize programming.  It is not a mystical thing.  And yes, I agree
that as far as getting a new point of view goes, there is nothing for it
but to do it.  But that doesn't make the results and/or benefits
indescribable.

		-Doug

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