[HN Gopher] Lingua::Romana::Perligata - Perl for the XXIimum Cen...
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Lingua::Romana::Perligata - Perl for the XXIimum Century
Author : BerislavLopac
Score : 14 points
Date : 2023-11-06 13:02 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| genericacct wrote:
| Perl coders are truly a different breed
| meepmorp wrote:
| Well, shit - someone found a way to make perl code readable.
| db48x wrote:
| The author, Damien Conway, has told the story several times
| about a Romanian company that uses/used
| Lingua::Romana:Perligata for precisely that reason. Of all the
| Romance languages Romanian is the closest to Latin, so they
| actually find/found the resulting code to be more readable than
| normal Perl with all of its English keywords, standard
| functions, and so on.
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| Cur non in ferro rescribere?
| db48x wrote:
| That's not the right translation for "rust", not to mention
| proper names usually aren't translated at all.
| ngcc_hk wrote:
| Based on the argument, would it be easier to do programming in
| Japanese I wonder. At least it is a living language with Rpn,
| sort of as the paper said.
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