sed by humans to instruct machines.
&gt; In my mind, at least, this is a significant ontological distinction.
&gt; One of the implications of this distinction is that polysemy is
&gt; much less acceptable in any programming language than it is
&gt; in any human-to-human language.
&gt; 
&gt; Doug
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&gt; "John F. Sowa" &lt;sowa@bestweb.net&gt;@bestweb.net on 12/11/2000 02:59:03 PM
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&gt;      To:  Jon Awbrey &lt;jawbrey@oakland.edu&gt;,