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From: crp@stcvax.UUCP (Charlie Price)
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Subject: Re: Greek and Roman Classics
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Date: Tue, 3-Jan-84 21:16:28 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  3 21:16:28 1984
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I, too, found Herodotus very worthwile.

Interestingly enough, I have reason to believe that Herodotus
might be particularly good reading for computer types.
His discursive style is very "stack oriented".
He will be in the middle of some story and mention something or
someone that "reminds him" of an entirely different topic related
to that thing or person and he will go off entirely from the present
topic to talk about whatever he was reminded of.
As far as I could tell, he never got more than two levels deep
(one original topic plus two levels of excursion) and he always got
back to the previous discussion.
This drove most of the people in the class crazy.
Perhaps it is only my own style that finds a match here
(which reminds me of a story ...) or perhaps it really is just a context
stack --- and we should all be able to deal with stacked contexts.
-- 
	Charlie Price - Storage Technology (disk division) - Louisville, CO
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