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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Adolescence of P-1
Message-ID: <444@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 14:38:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 14:38:38 1985
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I'm sure I saw copies of "Adolescence of P-1" at the local Walden Books just
the other day (in trade paperback).  Ask your bookstore to check "Books 
in Print" again.  There's always the used book stores.  It shows up at
Mile High Comics in Boulder quite often.

Actually, the program learns to survive and grow without it's creator's
help.  It is originally just a simple learning program that likes to grab
disk space.  There is some kind of catastrophe.  He thinks it is wiped out.  
It then comes back years later and says "Hi" to him.  Seems that the
various bad things that happen to it teach it to grow and live--it has
been essentially mutated.  I always thought that was the best part of the 
book--that it was a sort of natural selection that produced it--and not 
just superior programming.
-- 

                                     Sue Brezden
                                     ihnp4!drutx!slb

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