From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd3a5ba6349a6060 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jpt@diphi.demon.co.uk (JP Thornley) Subject: Alice books (was: should I be interested in ada?) Date: 1999/02/25 Message-ID: <645343458wnr@diphi.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 448452927 References: <7a72e6$g55$1@probity.mcc.ac.uk> <36C93BB4.1429@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <7afc1o$3mi$2@plug.news.pipex.net> <7afttr$7v3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aganu$qsc$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7ai4rb$5vn$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aingo$orv$2@plug.news.pipex.net> <7ajl7i$e8v$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7akvap$j5t$3@plug.news.pipex.net> <7alcqe$v7g$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aslft$gpq$4@plug.news.pipex.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!post-20.mail.demon.net!post.mail.demon.net![158.152.212.133] X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 919977207 mail2news:9848 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk Organization: None Reply-To: jpt@diphi.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes: > And if you haven't read both Alice books as an adult, get them > and read them! You will find that they were not really written for > children, and you have to be a pretty sophisticated logician to get > some of the jokes. Even better, if you can find it, get hold of Martin Gardner's Annotated Alice book*. It explains lots of those jokes, and includes a detailed description of the chess moves in the Looking Glass story. Phil Thornley *My copy is published by Penguin, so would not have been available in the US. But it says: "First published in the U.S.A by Clarkson N. Potter Inc. 1960" -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | JP Thornley EMail jpt@diphi.demon.co.uk | | phil.thornley@acm.org | ------------------------------------------------------------------------