Perl was there decades ago: https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...
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Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]
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Re: Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]
#22This guy lost me right at the beginning. He says that we write software in English because the USA won World War II with the help of the Colossus computer to break codes. Then he shows a picture of ENIAC, and suggests it was also used in World War II codebreaking. This is completely wrong - it was the British who used computers to break codes during that war. Colossus was built for that purpose by the British. ENIAC…
Absurd. There's about a million times more English text in the world than Latin text (so far). In 1000 years, English will be much better understood than Latin and it's not even close. Write software in English.
Re: Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 exp…
Oh - this is llm generated. That's disappointing, but not surprising, and explains the bad grammar and style. On the spectrum of classical to vulgar, it lands in the "just plain incorrect" bucket quite frequently. Case usage, word choice, syntax, it's got it all. Whatever llm did this needs to spend some more time with Bennet.
Re: Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]
#24Hoc tempus perditum est
Re: Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]
#25I thought of doing this in a kind of Lisp as it's been said to be like latin by analogy (PG?)
Didn't get around to it though as it would be another layer to go through when coding as I thought you'd have to translate the latin to whatever programming language you're using in English
Maybe LLMs might make it easy to get such a thing going for AI assisted coding in latin going forward though
Re: Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 exp…
Oh - this is llm generated. That's disappointing, but not surprising, and explains the bad grammar and style. On the spectrum of classical to vulgar, it lands in the "just plain incorrect" bucket quite frequently. Case usage, word choice, syntax, it's got it all. Whatever llm did this needs to spend some more time with Bennet.
Ita, feedbackum acceptum! Thanks for taking the tempum to check it out, also to whomever gave the astra!
Re: Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]
#27This guy lost me right at the beginning. He says that we write software in English because the USA won World War II with the help of the Colossus computer to break codes. Then he shows a picture of ENIAC, and suggests it was also used in World War II codebreaking. This is completely wrong - it was the British who used computers to break codes during that war. Colossus was built for that purpose by the British. ENIAC…
Absurd. There's about a million times more English text in the world than Latin text (so far). In 1000 years, English will be much better understood than Latin and it's not even close. Write software in English.
In 1000 years, people speaking what they will call English won't be able to understand the English we are writing today, any more than you can understand the English of 1026 -- it was a different language then, now called Anglo-Saxon.
BUT the Latin of 3026 will be the same as the Latin of 2026, 1026, ... and 26.
Re: Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absurd. There's about a million times more English text in the world than Latin text (so far). In 1000 years, English will be much better understood than Latin and it's not even close. Write software in English.
In 1000 years, people speaking what they will call English won't be able to understand the English we are writing today, any more than you can understand the English of 1026 -- it was a different language then, now called Anglo-Saxon. BUT the Latin of 3026 will be the same as the Latin of 2026, 1026, ... and 26.
> any more than you can understand the English of 1026
We can't understand the English of 1026 because almost nobody in the society of 1026 CE England was doing any writing at all in English. When a language is extensively written down, it tends to slow the evolution of the language considerably.