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thank you for your response.  Yes, I am a little "te(a)ched in the head."

I don't mean to  advocate ingorance of machine language. Indeed, a prior
course on something like the B5500 or PDP-11 would be beneficial.
(aside: were you around Burroughs-Sierra Madre in 1959-1960)
But I DO believe that the study of data structures is best done without
fiddling with a machine.(just as we expect a student, studying
group theory, to understand basic mathematics, but not necessarily
be a CPA, or even be able to balance his (sigh) checkbook)

I will be very upset if someone says APL works as well as LISP, but
after reading SIGPLAN and seeing papers on
	structured FORTRAN,
	 structured PL/1,
	  structured COBOL,
	   structured APL, 
	   (structured MIXAL next???), I'm resigned to expect almost
anything.

I've subtitled the polemic: "Don't look at trees until you've seen the
forest." and stuffed it in the mail. I do hope it gets published and
provokes some discussion. If so, then perhaps one of us can say:

		(ho, ho) "I1" (tsk,tsk)