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
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