30 Apr
2016
30 Apr
'16
3:51 a.m.
A Canticle for Leibowitz?
-brian
On Apr 29, 2016, at 14:32, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at
mac.com> wrote:
On 29 Apr 2016, at 20:04, Paul_Koning at Dell.com
wrote:
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
On Apr 29, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Sampsa Laine
<sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
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.