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Re: Hello...

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, November 12, 2000, 22:20
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, David Stokes wrote:

> One thing I found when working on Diom is that I was too close to it. I > repeatedly found myself paralyzed when I'd come up with something, then > say "No, thats not right." and erase it. I was making it up so it would > seem like I could do anything I wanted. But it felt like there was an > already existing correct language out there and I was just trying to > find out what it was. Does this happen to the rest of you ?
Absolutely. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter