From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sam command language
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Date: Wed,  8 Oct 2003 10:09:30 -0500
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 rog@vitanuova.com wrote:

> hmm.  "was clean" is quite different from "is clean".  (both are
> useful, but they're orthogonal to one another).

Actually they're not. Orthogonal means they are not related or dependent.
Cleary 'was' is related to 'is' when applied the thing what has the state
'clean'.

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