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Trey,<br><br>
Thanks for one of the best presentations I've seen at SPUG. You did
a great job of covering newbies, intermediates, and advanced listeners,
making sure that each group got something, and that most groups got much
more. A good set of perspectives, too -- academic intro,
user-centered middle, behind-the-covers closing. And what a great
new (OK, old) way to think and program. It really opened a new
world for me. Most of programming is held up by a framework of the
control structures that we're familiar with. This, being a
different control structure, lets us think differently. It reminds
me very much of a quote card that I hand out in many of the programming
language classes I teach:
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<dd>Language shapes the way we think,
<dd>and determines what we can think about.
<dd> -- B. L. Whorf
<dd> -- as quoted in the Preface to the First Edition
of
<dd> "The C++ Programming
Language", Bjarne Stroustrup
</dl>By adding something to the language, you've added something
different to think about.<br><br>
Thanks again for a GREAT presentation,<br>
Michael Wolf<br><br>
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Michael R. Wolf<br>
All mammals learn by playing!<br>
MichaelRWolf@att.net<br>
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