3 Aug
2023
3 Aug
'23
5:33 a.m.
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023, Ron Natalie wrote:
ASCII Bombs? Like my Letter Bomb Transport Protocol
(LBTP)?
Some "smart" terminals could have their function keys programmed by escape
characters, then subsequently invoked...
https://groups.google.com/g/net.followup/c/OJBALbzTq4w/m/LoxMnbz0bwMJ
It seems to have lost something in the formatting (the leading spaces
were all removed).
Aha... Much better with a bit of imagination :-)
Which reminds me: the reason why I refuse to use Python is that white
space is part of the syntax; the last language I used with that property
was FORTRAN (and I also had to learn COBOL as part of my CS degree, but
fortunately never had to use it).
-- Dave