OpenEuphoria

Re: direction

• Posted by Jay Daulton <JayD at ADVANCEDBIONICS.COM> Mar 22, 2000
• 432 views

a=. 'I always wondered how a million monkeys could produce the full contents
of the Encylopedia Britannica. Now it''s obvious: they could do it in APL or
J... and nobody could prove they didn''t... Of course nobody could use it...
'


 ((# ? #) { ])^: 10000 a
Pots lueN ueodm.rl . sebeououLl svffohswnd  lhcacohol   iedsiE u rou ewa
diptdsn lutnJnrlyeyo eatoo.n if clAlpraly  ddny.uIt o i rOcovh'nuoorB ek  c
b.o yon.ncwstdto c pyoiiy edo .c: ddaenac.'e ndti.  bnotohtnoi  maddewi ti.

Makes more sense to me after the 10000th shuffle. I do take offense at
'maddewi ti', the rest I can handle.



 ((# ? #) { ])^: 10000 a     This took 2.2 seconds on a Pentium 400. How
long in Euphoria?

Jay Daulton


-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Crook [mailto:joel at MAIL.K-A.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:21 PM
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: direction


I always wondered how a million monkeys could produce the full contents of
the Encylopedia Britannica. Now it's obvious: they could do it in APL or
J... and nobody could prove they didn't... Of course nobody could use it...

At 05:48 PM 03/22/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>APL  -- A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
>
>
>  Gee what a unique name for a computer langauge. That must be why hundreds
>
>  of billons of users are using this language and all you need is the
>
>  special keyboard or software drivers that can do over-strike characters.
>
>  Now all I need is to get that old selectric terminal out and hooker up
>
>  to the 1160.

Joel

"When the code works perfectly, the program is obsolete."

  -- "The Gosple According to St. Murphy"