[Dragaera] Dragaeran programming

[Jon Lincicum]

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From: Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt at Kithrup.COM>
> >This is as hard as writing a book (or just a short post) without using a
> >particular highly-common symbol.
> 
> It can be done, though, and has been.  
> 
> Cf. (1) _Gadsby_, a novel by Ernest Vincent Wright, written
> entirely withyout the letter E.
> 
> (except, presumably, in the author's name on the title page.)
> 
> For a shorter and much more readable example, in the Ellery Queen
> whodunit _The Origin of Evil_ a threatening letter is written in
> rather flowery language, and it's only at the _moment juste_ that
> Queen reveals the whole thing was written without the letter T
> ... at a time at which one of the suspects had a typewriter with
> a broken T bar.
> 
> Wouldn't work with modern word processors, now, would it?  Unless
> the appropriate key on the keyboard was broken and the writer had
> to work around that.

Could also work in a modern context if someone had a poorly made or corrupted font file.

Majikjon