MSG: APL 1
DISTRIB: *BBOARD
EXPIRES: 03/17/81 23:08:54
MINSKY@MIT-MC 03/11/81 23:08:54 Re: too-short programs
APL is compact, I suppose. So is TECO. When I wrote the following
Universal Turing Machine, which works, I actually understood it.
[ I've interpolated the non-printing characters as displayed by (Gnu) EMACS, escape is ^], ^^ is one character, as is \356: ]
i1Aul qq+^^0:iqm^[29iiq\356y0L1 00L1 11L2 A1L1
y0L1 0yR2 1AR2 AyR6 yyL3 00L0 1AL3 A1L4 yyL4 0yR5 11L7 A1L4
yyR5 0yL3 1AR5 A1R5 yyR6 0AL3 1AR6 A1R6 y0R7 0yR6 11R7 A0R2
^[j<sR^[;-d-2ciql-^^^[ci"ed^^^[cii^[ciuq'^[>
j<sL^[;-d-2ciql-^^^[ci"ed^^^[cii-2c^[ciuq'^[>jxblx1lx2lx3lx4lx5lx6lx7hk
iyyAyyAyy^[32<i0^[>ji110101110000010011011^[ 1uq<htmbqq=>
I do not advise attempting to understand this code, which is
almost as bad as that for the Universal Turing machine.
Please ack receipt of this and/or send me email (in my HN info); for others, note this is ITS TECO, which I was told was by far the most powerful version of it (fortunately, by the time I showed up learning it was no longer really necessary).
