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  7. Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:10:17 -0700
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  9. From: "William H. Mitchell" <whm86@mse.com>
  10. Subject: Re: Icon-like programming language - 2 attachments
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  14. At 07:11 PM 3/27/03 -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote:
  15. >Raja Mukherji <rapl_lang@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
  16. >
  17. >...
  18. >> Anyway, thanks for the comment. I don't think I'm reinventing the wheel, 
  19. >> meerly adding tyres to make it more useful, although I could be wrong...
  20. >
  21. >I think its great.  I like currying, for instance.  The world is a big
  22. >place, and if nobody builds similar wheels, we will have only weak
  23. >wheel builders -- Expertise comes from doing.
  24.  
  25. Here's a second for that motion.  If inventors had stopped with the first
  26. wheel all we'd have would be stone wheels, right?  (Or maybe it was wood... :) )
  27.