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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: viewprinting: what format should views be stored in?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:50:27 -0700
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To: George Beshers <gbeshers@comcast.net>
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George Beshers wrote:

>
> Ah... my language design background gets us into communication trouble 
> :-)
>
> Suppose for a moment that exclude actually added functionality (as for 
> example
> regular expressions over file names will) what terminology would you use?
> You see, to me the exclude is, at some level, little more than 
> syntactic sugar
> for the specification tools because the expressive power is equivalent 
> in theory
> even if using exclusion is much more convenient in practice.

Do you consider the various turing complete languages to have 
significant semantic differences?