Re: Of the following Wizardly beings, which is most likely to be a regular Perl user?

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Of course, Gandalf would have to have his text transliterated into tengwar, and use Perl in Quenya.

Tom "Turkey" Schaffer ( : >~

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Re^2: Of the following Wizardly beings, which is most likely to be a regular Perl user? by herveus (Prior) on Jun 13, 2008 at 10:28 UTC
Howdy! Lingua::Quenya yours, Michael	[reply]
Re^3: Of the following Wizardly beings, which is most likely to be a regular Perl user? by psini (Deacon) on Jun 13, 2008 at 10:44 UTC
It'a a pity it doesn't exist, we should do something about it. BTW I think Sindarin would be more appropriate than Quenya. Does anybody know if there is unicode support for feanorean runes? Careful with that hash Eugene.	[reply]
Re^4: Of the following Wizardly beings, which is most likely to be a regular Perl user? by jdporter (Paladin) on Jun 13, 2008 at 13:54 UTC
Does anybody know if there is unicode support for feanorean runes? Presumably you're referring to the Tengwar. Apparently there is a proposal to include Tengwar in Unicode, but that's as far as it's gotten.	[reply]
Re^4: Of the following Wizardly beings, which is most likely to be a regular Perl user? by tom10animal (Monk) on Jun 16, 2008 at 00:05 UTC
I can see it going either way. Quenya was the "Latin" of Middle earth and Gandalf's "native" tounge. Of course, though, Sindarin was in the Third Age the more commonly used language (among the Elves). I see Perl as a language that is extremely accessable and easily learned by those without lots of prior progamming experience. So, in that case, Sindarin would be the apropriate choice. Tom "Turkey" Schaffer ( : >~	[reply]
Re^2: Of the following Wizardly beings, which is most likely to be a regular Perl user? by swampyankee (Parson) on Jun 15, 2008 at 19:41 UTC
"Wizardly [cryptic] runes" would imply something really inscrutable, like APL. And they accuse Perl of resembling line noise? Information about American English usage here and here. Floating point issues? Please read this before posting. — emc	[reply]

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