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From: Clayton Weaver <cgweav@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: Student problem
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I don't think one should be so quick to judge a request for student
assistance. Asking on the net has the same advantages for a student that
emailing tech support has over a direct phone call: you handle the answer
on your schedule instead of someone else's. It may be that the student
simply has no clue about how to approach the problem in lisp terms, and a
model of the semantic decomposition of some similar data structure and
algorithm would suffice to allow the student to complete the assignment
before it's due date.

Regards, Clayton Weaver  cgweav@eskimo.com  (Seattle)




