berry@zinfandel.UUCP (03/20/84)
#R:rayssd:-42800:zinfandel:10800027:000:144 zinfandel!berry Mar 15 10:53:00 1984 I liked 'The Practice Effect' too. I sure wish I could 'practice' my programs. Imagine how good uucp would be by now! Or FORTRAN! --berry
rpw3@fortune.UUCP (03/25/84)
#R:rayssd:-42800:fortune:9900031:000:472 fortune!rpw3 Mar 25 02:17:00 1984 +-------------------- | (P.S. After being so negative, I can't wait for "Gorilla" -- The quality | of books in the sequence "Practice Effect","Sundiver", "Startide Rising" | is analogous to the gamma function!) +-------------------- Hmm... maybe there IS sometime to the "Practice Effect" ;-} Rob Warnock UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065
giles@ucf-cs.UUCP (Bruce Giles) (03/28/84)
+-------------------- | (P.S. After being so negative, I can't wait for "Gorilla" -- The quality | of books in the sequence "Practice Effect","Sundiver", "Startide Rising" | is analogous to the gamma function!) +-------------------- >> Hmm... maybe there IS sometime to the "Practice Effect" ;-} No, he specifically mentioned that the Practice Effect did not work on animate matter. Nice try.... P.S. He has an science article in the May 1984 *Analog*, an issue that will readers of this net will not so forget... (see my next article). ave discordia going bump in the night ... bruce giles decvax!ucf-cs!giles university of central florida giles.ucf-cs@Rand-Relay orlando, florida 32816
berry@zinfandel.UUCP (04/01/84)
#R:rayssd:-42800:zinfandel:10800028:000:448 zinfandel!berry Mar 30 12:27:00 1984 >> Hmm... maybe there IS sometime to the "Practice Effect" ;-} >No, he specifically mentioned that the Practice Effect did not work on >animate matter. Nice try.... Perhaps what he does is take one manuscript, practice it a while, send a copy off to a publisher, practice it some more, send off another copy, etc. etc. Surely you can practice a manuscript! Just read it a lot! --berry (Why isn't my terminal getting any better?) kercheval