16 Dec
1998
16 Dec
'98
10:19 p.m.
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Niven and Pournelle made the phrase a cliche in _Oath
of Fealty_, a
line created by my old friend Frank Gasperyk:
"Think of it as evolution in action."
What year did he "create" this? I'd guess that this phrase has been
around since Darwin's time -- the first joke that evolved from
the threory of evolution.
(As a kid in Junior High, I used to consciously make up catch phrases and
see if they'd catch. I deluded myself into thinking that I had created
"later" or somesuch.)
ObCC: genetic algorithms.
-- Doug