[HECnet] OFF-TOPIC (but it's Friday guys): APL FAIL

[Sampsa Laine]

> On 29 Apr 2016, at 20:04, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
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>> On Apr 29, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
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>> To be honest, APL looks like MUMPS using a bad dialup connection to me..
>> 
>> How the HELL could anyone understand that?
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> It just takes practice.  It's certainly not as bad as TECO.  :-)
> 
> Then again, I remember hearing Ron Rivest talk about a chip design program he wrote in APL -- 1000 lines.  That's scary.
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> I learned APL fairly recently, as a tool to do cryptanalysis.  I suppose there's some irony in that.
> 

After The Event, once they invent transistors again, they’ll find a printout of your APL cryptanalysis program.

They will then develop an even stranger language using Mayan hieroglyphs to decode your code.

Sampsa



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