Re: The enormous potential that programming LaTeX in Ada presents.

[mrvmurray@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 20:57:02 UTC, Pascal Obry  wrote:
> So what do you mean by the above?

It is a long-standing misconception of his. In 10+ years he's been
unable to break away from the idea that plainTEXT can be anything
input to a cipher, and he's convinced that encryption is limited to
human-readable text. He has many similar misconceptions about
computers in general.

This is not helped by the fact that he only knows how to use the
ada.text_io and ada.integer_text_io packages, and has proven
himself aggressively hostile to attempting to use something more
suitable. He is similarly hostile to bug reports in his code.

Thus, his cipher will only encrypt (badly, mind you) bytes in the
numeric range 32..126. Newlines are passed through unchanged
and other bytes cause his program to crash.

M