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Comment by dleslie

8 days ago

Cryptonomicon has the use of a highly custom version of Emacs called OrdoEmacs.

https://dev.to/hyenast2/neal-stephenson-s-cryptonomicon-and-...

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justinhj  7 days ago

There's a perl script in the book that does some encryption/decryption. I remember typing it out and fixing it so it worked.

wowczarek  7 days ago

Not only does Enoch run everything as root, he also has an account in my system, and in yours. But I guess he was there first...

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