Re: [FWP] Prisoners' Perl

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:28:42PM +0000, Robin Houston wrote:
> The notorious French literary group _Oulipo_ came up with
> the following scenario: A prisoner has a very limited supply
> of paper to write on, and so in order to conserve this scarce
> resource he decides to use only those letters which extend
> neither above nor below the line: aceimnorsuvwxz

This prisoner should have programed in Unlambda (its even French):
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/unlambda/#what_looks

the following Unlambda program calculates and prints the Fibonacci
numbers (as lines of asterisks)

```s``s``sii``s`kk`ki`ki``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s``s`ks`
`s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`k
s``s`kk`kk``s`kk`kr``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk
`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk`ki``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk``s`kk`k.*``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk
``s`kki``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk``s`kki``s`kk`ki``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``
s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk``s`kk`k``s``s`ks``s``s`ks`
`s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk``s`kk`ks``s``s`k
s``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk``s`kk
`ks``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk``s`kk`kk``s``s`ks``s`
kk`kk``s`kki``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk``s`kk`kk``s`
kk`ki``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``
s`kk`kk``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks
``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`
kk``s`kk`kk``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk`ki``s``s`ks``s``s`ks``s`kk`ks``s``s`ks``
s`kk`kk``s`kk`kk``s`kk`ki``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk``s`kk`ki``s``s`ks``s`kk`kk
`ki``s`kk`ki

(Line breaks, as all whitespace in fact, are optional and arbitrary.) 

He would have been intellegent enough, of course, to run it through a
pre-processor to convert k and ` to something more compressible.

-- 

Michael G. Schwern   <schwern@pobox.com>    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
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