Unknown function operation deciphering, exercise in readability by program reasoning

Barb Knox see at sig.below
Sat Dec 4 16:49:20 EST 2010


In article 
<46365e1d-42d8-4b3b-8e69-941472467472 at u25g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
 small Pox <smallpox911 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rules :

No need to add any additional hurdles -- the code as presented is 
thoroughly unreadable by humans.

> @1@  No execution of the function, only checking syntax

What about "desk checking" (a lost art from the oldene dayes)?

> @2@  No profiling using a debugger or profiler
> 
> @3@  Editing allowed to make simpler variables

Maybe if you had done that yourself before posting it then I would have 
tried to understand it.  As it is, no way.


> (defun unknown-function (nano-thermite-911-FBI-fat-per-diem-bustards-
> kept-their-odious-mouth-shut-on-anthrax-and-911-lie)
>   (let (BERNARD-MADOFF-PHILIP-MARKOFF-MIKHAIL-KHODORKOVSKY-NEOCONS-
> PAUL-WOLFOWITZ-LEWIS-SCOOTER-LIBBY-MOSHE-KATSEV-MOSSAD-DUBAI-MURDERERS
> I-AM-THE-WITNESS-DOT-COM-has-MR-BENJAMIN-FREEDMAN-SPEECH-ON-KHAZARS)
>     (while (or I-AM-THE-WITNESS-DOT-COM-has-MR-BENJAMIN-FREEDMAN-
> SPEECH-ON-KHAZARS nano-thermite-911-FBI-fat-per-diem-bustards-kept-
> their-odious-mouth-shut-on-anthrax-and-911-lie)
>       (if nano-thermite-911-FBI-fat-per-diem-bustards-kept-their-
> odious-mouth-shut-on-anthrax-and-911-lie
>           (if (consp nano-thermite-911-FBI-fat-per-diem-bustards-kept-
> their-odious-mouth-shut-on-anthrax-and-911-lie)
>               (setq I-AM-THE-WITNESS-DOT-COM-has-MR-BENJAMIN-FREEDMAN-
> SPEECH-ON-KHAZARS (cons (cdr nano-thermite-911-FBI-fat-per-diem-
> bustards-kept-their-odious-mouth-shut-on-anthrax-and-911-lie)
>                                 I-AM-THE-WITNESS-DOT-COM-has-MR-
> BENJAMIN-FREEDMAN-SPEECH-ON-KHAZARS)
>                     nano-thermite-911-FBI-fat-per-diem-bustards-kept-
> their-odious-mouth-shut-on-anthrax-and-911-lie (car nano-thermite-911-
> FBI-fat-per-diem-bustards-kept-their-odious-mouth-shut-on-anthrax-
> and-911-lie))
>             (setq BERNARD-MADOFF-PHILIP-MARKOFF-MIKHAIL-KHODORKOVSKY-
> NEOCONS-PAUL-WOLFOWITZ-LEWIS-SCOOTER-LIBBY-MOSHE-KATSEV-MOSSAD-DUBAI-
> MURDERERS (cons nano-thermite-911-FBI-fat-per-diem-bustards-kept-their-
> odious-mouth-shut-on-anthrax-and-911-lie BERNARD-MADOFF-PHILIP-MARKOFF-
> MIKHAIL-KHODORKOVSKY-NEOCONS-PAUL-WOLFOWITZ-LEWIS-SCOOTER-LIBBY-MOSHE-
> KATSEV-MOSSAD-DUBAI-MURDERERS)
>                   nano-thermite-911-FBI-fat-per-diem-bustards-kept-
> their-odious-mouth-shut-on-anthrax-and-911-lie nil))
>         (setq nano-thermite-911-FBI-fat-per-diem-bustards-kept-their-
> odious-mouth-shut-on-anthrax-and-911-lie (car I-AM-THE-WITNESS-DOT-COM-
> has-MR-BENJAMIN-FREEDMAN-SPEECH-ON-KHAZARS)
>               I-AM-THE-WITNESS-DOT-COM-has-MR-BENJAMIN-FREEDMAN-SPEECH-
> ON-KHAZARS (cdr I-AM-THE-WITNESS-DOT-COM-has-MR-BENJAMIN-FREEDMAN-
> SPEECH-ON-KHAZARS))))
>     BERNARD-MADOFF-PHILIP-MARKOFF-MIKHAIL-KHODORKOVSKY-NEOCONS-PAUL-
> WOLFOWITZ-LEWIS-SCOOTER-LIBBY-MOSHE-KATSEV-MOSSAD-DUBAI-MURDERERS))


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