Bear Discovers Fire

Gwern Branwen · 07 Aug 2008, 13:28 · from 2008-August.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:28:23 -0400
Subject: (urth) Bear Discovers Fire
In-Reply-To: <684776.52321.qm at web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
References: <684776.52321.qm at web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20080807132823.GA27099@craft>

On 2008.08.07 03:48:32 -0700, Fred Kiesche <recursive_loop at yahoo.com> scribbled 1.8K characters:
>    Greetings:
>
>    Might I recommend a look at Greg Brear's new work, "City at the End of Time". The Prolog
>    (that's how it is spelled in the book, although my spell check is disagreeing with me) reminds
>    me of a certain author with the initials GW. Not as dense, but the echoes are there!
>
>    F.P. Kiesche III

I haven't read that book, but could 'Prolog' be a reference to the Prolog programming language?

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gwern
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