Hi! In "Mirror Dance", a sci-fi book by Lois McMaster Bujold there's a line that confuses me:
A real human tutor had introduced him to a vast array of virtual learning programs. He'd lost himself for days at a time in the computer's patient praise. Unlike his Komarran tutors later, they repeated themselves endlessly, and never punished him, never swore or raged or struck or forced him to physical exertion till he grew sick or passed out. . . .
I have a foggy idea that it might mean something like "in the (patient) computer's care" but am I on the right track here? I've never encountered the word "praise" in this meaning. I thought it best to ask... Thank you!
A real human tutor had introduced him to a vast array of virtual learning programs. He'd lost himself for days at a time in the computer's patient praise. Unlike his Komarran tutors later, they repeated themselves endlessly, and never punished him, never swore or raged or struck or forced him to physical exertion till he grew sick or passed out. . . .
I have a foggy idea that it might mean something like "in the (patient) computer's care" but am I on the right track here? I've never encountered the word "praise" in this meaning. I thought it best to ask... Thank you!