[ruby-talk:6985] Perl programs can now be written in Latin

[e-mail] (Damian Conway) writes:

> ==============================================================================
>              Release of version 0.01 of Lingua::Romana::Perligata
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> 
> NOMEN
> 
>     Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- Perl in Latin
> 
> 
> DESCRIPTIO
> 
>     The Lingua::Romana::Perligata makes it makes it possible to write Perl
>     programs in Latin. (If you have to ask "Why?", then the answer probably
>     won't make any sense to you either.)
> 
>     The linguistic principles behind Perligata are described in:
> 
>             http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html
> 
>     The module is `use'd at the start of the program, and installs a filter
>     which allows the rest of the program to be written in (modified) Latin,
>     as described in the accompanying documentation.
> 
> 
> EXEMPLUM
> 
> 	#! /usr/bin/perl -w
>         use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;
> 
> 	adnota Illud Cribrum Eratothenis
> 
>         maximum tum val inquementum tum biguttam tum stadium egresso scribe.
>         vestibulo perlegementum da meo maximo.
>         maximum tum novumversum egresso scribe.
>         da II tum maximum conscribementa meis listis.
>         dum damentum nexto listis decapitamentum fac sic
>                lista sic hoc tum nextum recidementum cis vannementa da listis.
>                next tum biguttam tum stadium tum nextum tum novumversum
>                         scribe egresso.
>         cis.
> 
> 
> SCRIPTOR
> 
>     Damian Conway ([e-mail])
> 
> 
> IUS TRANSCRIBENDI
> 
>     Copyright (c) 2000, Damian Conway. All Rights Reserved.
> 
>     This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or
>     modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License
>     (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)
> 
> 
> MUTATIONES IN EDITIO 0.01
> 
>    Initial release.
> 
> 
> ADITUS
> 
>    Lingua::Romana::Perligata has been uploaded to the CPAN and is also
>    available from:
> 
>       http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/CPAN/Lingua-Romana-Perligata.tar.gz
> 
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> 

-- 
Terrence Brannon