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- From: tpp@cbnews.cb.att.com (thomas.p.pschar)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai,rec.arts.books,misc.writing,rec.arts.int-fiction
- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.171359.8478@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:13:59 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.163029.1901@seas.smu.edu> <25JAN199314110698@rigel.tamu.edu>
- Organization: AT&T
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- In article <25JAN199314110698@rigel.tamu.edu> spb0457@rigel.tamu.edu (SubGenius) writes:
- >Ted Pedersen writes...
- >
- >>I think this is a stunt. I don't really believe a computer program
- >>wrote this book. However, if anyone has any information about this
- >>book or the author that would give this some credibility I would like
- >>to hear about it. Comment on the general idea would be interesting as
- >>well. I don't think the idea itself is impossible, it just seems like
- >>this case is a little far fetched.
- >
- >[deletia]
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- >There's at least one book authored by a computer I can think of--a thinnish
- >volume that came out six or eight years back called _The Policeman's Beard
- >is Half Constructed_ and, while most of it was on the ragged edge of
- >comprehensibility I'd rate it far above any of J.S.'s efforts. Because
- >although it contained a good deal of repetition due to a conspicuously
- >small vocabulary, it did deliver occasional jems like, `A black pig is
- >like a tormented bat,' explained in tortuous logic, and the wild
- >`inconsistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds,' which leads one to
- >wonder what trash the programmers had been feeding their machine.
- >
- >
- Racter! I bought that program a long time ago, but it had to run off of drive
- A, which on my machine was a 3 1/2 (the disk was a 5 1/4). I never could get it
- to run, and even sent the disk back. Does anyone still have it? Did anyone
- hack it to work off any drive?
-
-
- Tom
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- >-SubGenius
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- |Tom Pschar - AT&T CAOSS Dev. Team | "Fifteen is my limit on Schnitzengruben!"|
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