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Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]

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Re: Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]

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Post by jdb1729 »

Sic itur ad astra! I spent some time and tokens generating these C99 applications and libraries all in classical Latin: https://github.com/jdb19937/apotheca. They all build with this C99 compiler + arm64 assembler + linker toolchain https://github.com/jdb19937/ccc (CCC = 300) which is included. But my favorite one of these repo is the 100+ test cases https://github.com/jdb19937/corpus that I used to iterate the compiler to bootstrappability. Nota: README.md ignorandum est. Anglice scriptum est ad barbaros ineruditos pecunia emungendos, lege LEGEME.md.

Re: Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]

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Post by wcarey »

jdb1729 wrote: post #3

Sic itur ad astra! I spent some time and tokens generating these C99 applications and libraries all in classical Latin: https://github.com/jdb19937/apotheca . They all build with this C99 compiler + arm64 assembler + linker toolchain https://github.com/jdb19937/ccc (CCC = 300) which is included. But my favorite one of these repo is the 100+ test cases https://github.com/jdb19937/corpus that I used to iterate the comp…

How did you compose the Latin? It seems... not very classical both in word selection and grammar. For example,

    /* Est c consonans (non vocalis, non spatium, non littera non-Latina)? */
seems a word-by-word translation of English words into Latin words ignoring the structure and syntax of classical Latin. Perhaps it ought to be something more like:

    /* Estne c litera consonans (neque vocalis, neque spatium, neque litera linguae aliae)?
edit: On reflection, notes on the return values of boolean functions probably ought to be some sort of utrum ...an construction.

Re: Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]

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Post by jdb1729 »

wcarey wrote: post #4
jdb1729 wrote: post #3

Sic itur ad astra! I spent some time and tokens generating these C99 applications and libraries all in classical Latin: https://github.com/jdb19937/apotheca . They all build with this C99 compiler + arm64 assembler + linker toolchain https://github.com/jdb19937/ccc (CCC = 300) which is included. But my favorite one of these repo is the 100+ test cases https://github.com/jdb19937/corpus that I used to iterate the comp…

How did you compose the Latin? It seems... not very classical both in word selection and grammar. For example, /* Est c consonans (non vocalis, non spatium, non littera non-Latina)? */ seems a word-by-word translation of English words into Latin words ignoring the structure and syntax of classical Latin. Perhaps it ought to be something more like: /* Estne c litera consonans (neque vocalis, neque spatium, neque liter…

One way I felt the prerogative to influence it was in choice of vocabulary, for example "files" are plicae, non fasciculi, brevity FTW. I have a (private) CLAUDIUS.md file where I accumulated such guidance. Frankly I can't really tell where it lies on the spectrum of classical to vulgar, my memories of reading Cicero and Pliny have faded quite a bit, but I understand your point about the barbaric word order (next expeditio I'll take this into account). But it was still a worthwhile campaign in terms of refreshing that knowledge. Salve!
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