Nine Billion Names Of God

I don’t remember how the subject came up, but Rachel and I were talking about the old Arthur Clarke story. Still a good yarn, but the amusing part to me now is that what back then could’ve plausibly taken two engineers to build, and three months to run, is now a six-line comp 101 exercise:

(I know, I know, there’s probably a more efficient way to handle the no-more-than-three-repeating-letters rule than that clunky regexp. But this was just for yucks, during my morning coffee.)