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I recently wrote a program to do Threefish encryption which I deliberately wrote to look as much like the mathematical notation in the spec as possible. That ma

I recently wrote a program to do Threefish encryption which I deliberately wrote to look as much like the mathematical notation in the spec as possible. That made things so much easier that it was almost ridiculous, even if it made the resulting program very peculiar-looking.

blasdel 17y ago
You'll love what Alan Kay has been working on: http://vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf http://vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf You'll be especially enamored of their 200-line TCP/IP implementation, introduced on p17 and reproduced with documentation starting on p44. It's implemented as a grammar in their meta-language that parses the ASCII-art diagrams in the RFCs and executes them.