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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.224.165 with SMTP id rd5mr7067900obc.42.1417646352551; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:39:12 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.16.200 with SMTP id 66mr37239qgb.35.1417646352522; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:39:12 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!h15no4232558igd.0!news-out.google.com!n9ni15qai.0!nntp.google.com!s7no3972981qap.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 14:39:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1417640220.29837.29.camel@obry.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2001:470:1f08:1b6:0:0:0:2; posting-account=r0RePAgAAABkc8iAou09Mtfbf-fnKQql NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:470:1f08:1b6:0:0:0:2 References: <16bc91a8-7d25-4b39-a88c-3423e5bdecf4@googlegroups.com> <587e236f-123f-4897-b73e-264082a62806@googlegroups.com> <1417640220.29837.29.camel@obry.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: The enormous potential that programming LaTeX in Ada presents. From: mrvmurray@gmail.com Injection-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:39:12 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Received-Bytes: 2117 X-Received-Body-CRC: 37083844 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23849 Date: 2014-12-03T14:39:12-08:00 List-Id: 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