"Mauricio FernáÏdez" <batsman.geo / yahoo.com> wrote in message news:20030511212100.GA11671 / student.ei.uni-stuttgart.de... > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 06:15:37AM +0900, MikkelFJ wrote: > > > > "Rudolf Polzer" <denshimeiru-sapmctacher / durchnull.ath.cx> wrote in message > > news:slrnbbt4nh.6ul.denshimeiru-sapmctacher / message-id.durchnull.ath.cx... > > > > > Below some stupid Ruby script that outputs 42: my first experiment in > > > Lambda calculus. Seems like Lambda calculus is the strongest possible > > > obfuscation technique... > > > > A slighty more obfuscated version would be to broadcast the question "What > > is the meaning of life, the universe and everything" and listen on the SETI > > channel. > > You mean aliens speak Perl and do lambda calculus too?? No, aliens have babelfish and the idea was not to broadcast calculus but the above question in english. Mikkel