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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Don't be so hard on Kevin Soucy!
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Carl Muckenhoupt (baf@max.tiac.net) wrote:
> It strikes me that AGATE aspires to be something that
> will be just as accessable to the non-programmer as AGT,
> but more powerful and less error-prone.  Surely this is
> a good thing.

That is a very keen point (and I do mean finely-honed.) I agree.

My extended rant of yesterday, although I stand by it (it took way too
long to type in, for one thing. :-) doesn't take that idea into account. 

--Z

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