I wonder what is the probability that a randomly selected string of a
given length (maybe with an agreed proportion of non-alpha characters)
is actually executable in J? What kind of probability distribution
over increasing string length would you get? Overall it must be a lot
higher than with most of the other languages - I have occasionally
slumped over the keyboard late at night and accidentally entered
gibberish - no Shakespeare yet, but occasionally something happens
other than just getting an error...

(another Stuart - Baker)

On 9/23/07, Stuart Bruff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, how many of you would automatically try (as I did) to
> interpret the following nonsense that appeared as the header from a piece of
> spam I received?
>
> :[[(- .]]:!*:  +()!    *)[(:[ !  )+!*-!
>
> I initially thought it was a misplaced J Forum email.  I can't decide whether
> it's sadder that I tried to interpret it, or that it took me about 3 seconds 
> to
> realize it what it actually was :-(
>
> Stuart
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