Martin Cracauer via plug on 1 Nov 2021 19:16:13 -0700 |
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Re: [PLUG] trojan, ransomware |
Rich Freeman via plug wrote on Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 10:05:28PM -0400: > On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 3:22 PM Martin Cracauer via plug > <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote: > > > > Serious question. I don't want to be all English-rulz, but > > realistically everybody programs in English. > > > > Pretty sure non-ASCII programming has been a thing for a VERY long time: > > FACTORIAL???{??/??????} ??? OR: FACTORIAL?????/??? > > (Recursive implementation of factorial function in APL. Works fine in > this non-html email thanks to unicode...) I knew somebody would bring up APL :-) I just have a hard time requiring more than 8 bit characters encodings for source code. And we see a result right here. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug