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Re: notable computer stories in fiction and the media

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From: GE... Gehri Grimaud
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 16:34
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In article <13...@scorn.sco.COM>, dav...@sco.COM (David Vangerov) writes:
> 2) Rick Cook wrote a fantasy novel called "Wizard's Bane" that features
>    such fun things as Emacs, C, Unix. it mentions *sizeof* specifically
>    (put in boldface). later on in the book we get R^2D^2, find, a passwd
>    cracker, some stuff that looks like C, or maybe Lisp, Emac(s), grep,
>    $ prompt, cd, slash, backslash, and other stuff common in Unix. the
>    story centers around a guy who is magically transported into another
>    world where magic reins supreme, and there is no technology. he has
>    nickname of Wiz, which is why he was called into the other world to
>    help fight evil magic. eventually he invents a magic compiler to help
>    in this. very intersting novel.

A sequel has been released by Rick Cook.  It is "The Wizardy Compiled".
I liked the bit when he ran his maigc "program"; it created a demon.  It
is much fun.
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From: GE...@cc.usu.edu (Gehri Grimaud)
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