From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Alan E & Carmel J Brain Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/10/16 Message-ID: <34466EB4.3381@dynamite.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 280855793 References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <343FD05C.8986A557@flash.net> <34428914.2D71D0F@ibm.net> <01bcd87f$7fefcf00$25a43a91@basil.omroep.nl> <34458CE3.507C@dynamite.com.au> <3444BFC6.794BDF32@druid.net> Organization: @home Reply-To: aebrain@dynamite.com.au Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > > Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote: > > Every time someone says how terse and powerful C is, I think of APL. > > My favourite quote about APL - "I refuse to use any computer language > in which the proponents shove snippets of code under each other's > nose saying 'I bet you can't guess what this does!'" Trouble is, this is true. I wrote a security system that took a user input, used it to write a program which when executed wrote another program that modified the first program, exited, and the first program then gave access to certain data. In 2 lines. Due to hardware limitations, this 2-liner was impossible to make "hidden" so I made it Cryptic, and self-modifying. 2 months later, even I couldn't figure out exactly what it did. -- aebrain@dynamite.com.au <> <> How doth the little Crocodile | Alan & Carmel Brain| xxxxx Improve his shining tail? | Canberra Australia | xxxxxHxHxxxxxx _MMMMMMMMM_MMMMMMMMM abrain@cs.adfa.oz.au o OO*O^^^^O*OO o oo oo oo oo By pulling MAERKLIN Wagons, in 1/220 Scale