[Dragaera] Dragaeran programming

Ken Koester kkoester at email.ers.usda.gov
Wed Oct 15 11:20:42 PDT 2008


Philip Hart wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>
> Cf. my comment.
>
> I was thinking of Georges Perec's _La Disparition_.
>
Of the OuLiPo?  IIRC, written without the letter "e" also, & fiendishly 
difficult to do in French.

Snarkhunter





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