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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Tyranny of the computer
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> I don't believe that natural language, written or spoken, should serve
> the needs of data processing.  Rather, how about the following deal:
> We natural language users won't tell you data processors how to write
> your FORTRAN or Extended Mercury Autocode.  You don't tell us how to
> write our native languages.
> 
> 				-- Matt Rosenblatt

Gee, I thought you natural language users were just telling us how to write
our 'C' programs. Must have been an illusion.
-- 
	Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf)
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