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Re: OT: PL/I was Re: Please welcome . . .

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Friday, December 19, 2003, 11:01
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Wesley Parish wrote:

> Has anyone else read Ian Watson's book "The Embedding"? > > In it he has a uniquely Lisp-like use of human language - > "The rat that the cat that the dog worried killed ate the malt"
Hm? I thought Lisp was verb-first? Lispifying that sentence would be more like (ate (killed (worried dog cat) rat) malt), wouldn't it? -- Tristan.

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