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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Turing Test Myths
Message-ID: <1992Sep9.185917.829@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:59:17 GMT
References: <BILL.92Aug17114642@ca3.nsma.arizona.edu> <1992Aug17.191457.8645@spss.com> <7499@skye.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <7499@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>This is not necessarily true.  Think, for example, of how much 
>easier it is to have a reading knowledge of a programming language
>than a writing knowledge.  

You have fallen victim to an error commonly made by those who pretend
to be knowledgeable about computers, but in fact are not.  It is far
far easier to have a writing knowledge of a programming language that
to have a reading knowledge.


