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[HUGH]

Mike,

I was sort of half understanding it till I came to "translates it into 
syntaxa breakthrough in usability".  I defy anyone to say what that means.

Using the bits that make some kind of sense, I get the impression the thing 
is a system that (I think they say) will accept input in a form of human 
language - as opposed to computer language such as C, Fortran, Pascal, etc - 
and translate it into some "computer language". This will save having to 
learn a computer language.  As computer languages save having to learn 
machine code, it's more of the same, only more expensive.  Its input will 
have to have a formal structure, so really it's just another computer 
language.  Of course it might all mean something completely different.

Hugh.