29 Apr
2016
29 Apr
'16
7:48 p.m.
My guess is that Mayan has an in?sufficient 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:
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.