> /I/ would say the heiroglyphs don't encode memes at all but rather are
> stimulous-patterns for various meme-complex interpreters that did not
> exist in the intervening 2000yrs and even the second recreation of the
> interpretive meme-complexes are grounded in pure linguistic, not fully
> cultural, interpretation.
OK, you mentioned you are a computer professional. Would you
call this a program?:
use Math::BigInt;$|=1;$%=2;($y,$b=>$c,$d)=map{new Math::BigInt $_}4,1,12,
4;a:($=,$-,$%)=($%**2,2*$%+1,$%+1),($y,$b,$c,$d)=($c,$d=>$=*$y+$-*$c,$=*
$b+$-*$d),($;,$:)=($y/$b,$c/$d);$;=~y/+//d=>(print$;,$%-3?'':"."),($y,$c)
=(10*($y%$b),10*($c%$d))=>($;,$:)=($y/$b,$c/$d)until($;-$:);goto a
I'd call it a program, even though it isn't actually running on
a computer. In fact you need a perl interpreter (v.5) to see what
it does. (If you don't I'd be really impressed!)
If you wouldn't call it a program, but instead a stimulus-pattern for
a particular programming language interpreter I'd understand. I wouldn't
agree, but I'd understand.
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