Re: Graphic converter query - transparency

Woody <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> >    peterd.news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "Pd" writes:
> >
> >> I thought I'd try the same thing written in Lisp but even more
> >> generalised, since anything that happens more than once on usenet
> >> probably appears as a pattern elsewhere.
> 
> Sick man!
> 
> wouldn't it be just a simple:
> 
> (loop
>   (print "Jim: it is")
>   (print "Rowland: it isn't"))

The point was to generalise it so it would take three arguments, one for
each participant and one statement, the veracity of which is asserted or
repudiated. The use of Lisp was because there needs to be some parsing
of the verb, and English is so full of irregular verbs and the most
commonly used verbs are often irregular, so a language that lends itself
to string manipulation seemed a good choice. Perhaps Perl would be
better.

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Pd