18 Feb
1999
18 Feb
'99
12:07 a.m.
Ward Griffiths wrote:
One of these days I'll have to track down a copy
of release 1.0 and
read it again. I read the copy I got from the SF Book Club back in
the early '70s. I'm really not all that crazy about Gerrold's
writing in general.
I'd be interested to know what the differences between the two releases are.
In release 2.0, the author was so insistent that 1.0 was flawed and out-of-
date, you wouldn't want to read 1.0, 2.0 was tons better, etc. Actually the
parallel with the software industry is frightening... I never noticed that
before now!
And what about releases 1.0.1, 1.5, 1.9999, 2.0 alpha, etc.? :) A few
authors actually use version control so this could happen.
Maybe the nice buyers on eBay would like a copy of "When Harl was Onw",
release 0.6?
-- Derek