Quotes from happy customers

``Once you have managed to get the code size below 1.5kB you should consider submitting it to the IOCCC.''

--J. Pietschmann, email, August 1995.

``I hope you and your collaborators will be able to eliminate the bugs [...] in the forthcoming (final?) release of PARI.''

--Michael Stoll, email, April 1997.

``It was so fast, we thought it must have been written in French''

--Wieb Bosma, Luminy, 30 October 1997.

``Argghhhh!!! And I thought GP was a clean language...''

--Paul Zimmermann, email, April 2005.

Fun Stuff

Fin

dolphin-shaped implementation of a ``complete'' RSA system (key generation, encryption, decryption) using perl, dc and gp. (Available as a ThinkGeek T-shirt).

mp.s

The MC68020 assembler kernel around which historical versions of PARI were built.

ISABELLE

A report (in french) on PARI/GP's ancestor ISABELLE, an interpretor for higher arithmetic written in 1979 by Henri Cohen and François Dress (Bordeaux university).