note GrandFather <p>Ahh, that's nothing. Why when I was a lad we used to program by poking holes in a pieces of card then mailing the cards away and waiting a week to see if the program worked.</p> <p>When the TRS80 came out I programmed it in Z80 machine code just for the challenge. (My Grandfather had a mechanical adding machine that I used for extracting square roots by using successive approximations - by hand.)</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-461912"> <hr>Perl is Huffman encoded by design. </div></div> 508131 508171