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

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My guess is that Mayan has an in‎sufficient number of hieroglyphs available for that task :-)

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Van: Sampsa Laine
Verzonden: vrijdag 29 april 2016 19:32
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] OFF-TOPIC (but it's Friday guys): APL FAIL


> 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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