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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Recommendations, please
Date: 1997/01/26
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tmoran said (with smiley!)

  Perhaps 'too dry' in a message from *.es is an analogy to a taste
characteristic of wine, which may be understood by those of us in
California, but is over the heads of recipients in *.nyu.edu?


I doubt that Californians have a monopoly on understanding wine, although
you may be right that they prefer their wines sweet, which I certainly
do not (unless it be a really good Sauterne with desert, I still remember
the two bottles of 1960 Chateau D'Yquem that we bought as students for
$12/bottle -- which seemed like a fortune then (if only we had known ....)

Anyway, the point is that I still can't find an analogy between programming
languages and their implementations and dryess or wetness of wines or 
anything else, and I am afraid that tmoran's post does not help.

P.S. are there really any good sweet Californian wines? I never met one.
There are certainly some excellent non-sweet wines from California ...
(Hmmm! maybe that will draw some messages in French, and make Mike Feldman
feel happy).