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From: cpp@netcom.com (Robin Rowe)
Subject: Re: Translations from Scheme to C++ as aid to teaching C++ after Scheme
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<<  The main semantic difficulty in translating Scheme to C++ is that
while C++ is technically an expression language, its expressions are     
weak compared to Scheme's. >>

Hi. Would you define what you mean by "weak."

Thanks.

Robin

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