Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]

▲ Write Software in Latin (2025) [video](youtube.com)

30 points by akkartik 3 days ago | 9 comments

▲ mpyne 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Perl was there decades ago: https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...

	▲	hotelsacher an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Came here to say this :)

▲ jdb1729 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

▲ wcarey 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	jdb1729 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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!

▲ Muromec an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One thing he missed out on is using genders to represent variables of different types, having three `temp` variables with different names, comparators that take valueA, valueB et cetera.

▲ mrkeen 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

C already has vel and aut operators, but now we can name them as such!

▲ golem14 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Recte!

▲ not-so-darkstar 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When he started reading latin in a japanese accent I lost it