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Old joke from usenet: > I have reverse engineered secret security algorithms used by the CIA and can break any message they encrypt. As proof, here is the last
by lelanthran 3y ago
Old joke from usenet:
> I have reverse engineered secret security algorithms used by the CIA and can break any message they encrypt. As proof, here is the last few lines of an implementation of their encryption function in Lisp
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- maleldil 3y agoThe joke misses the mark because Lisp code usually coalesces all the parentheses in the same line at the end of the block. It does make sense for Ruby, though.
- lelanthran 3y agoInterestingly enough, this type of response ("Lisp parentheses isn't indented like that") was the most usual type of response. Apparently joke-killers aren't a new thing :-)
- self 3y agoIt's from here: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.humor.funny/c/HjP_hKi49Ws/m/2Kj2xqbrF1cJ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.humor.funny/c/HjP_hKi49Ws/m/... In other archives: https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=rec.humor.funny&mid=PDEzNzQ1N0Bsb29raW5nLm9uLmNhPg https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=rec.humor.funny&m... and https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/90q2/lispcode.html https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/90q2/lispcode.html