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On Mar 17, 2015, at 8:59 AM, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote:

> I'm the same -- hard to see what is so hard about it anymore.  It's usually
> the lack of an organized small group of current-day-usable footprints
> that puts people off.

What puts *me* off is the lack of any clear conceptual foundation to stand on. There are no elementary objects to group together to make complex objects. There’s no grouping hierarchy. Instead, there are predefined complex objects with arbitrary magical properties, interacting in unpredictable ways.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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