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From: Tim Bradshaw <t...@cley.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: LISP - 24hours in a few days - headache
Date: 18 Aug 2002 01:07:52 +0100
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* ilias  wrote:
> as in other newgroups: no precision, no gentleness, no focussing on the
> posters problems & questions. 

You ask for this but then produce n lines of `English' which is all
but unparseable to a native speaker.  If you want precision *ask
precise questions*.   Or, if you can't manage that, at least ask
questions in a language which has a detectable grammar.

--tim