Why? Because he can.

“Hmm… I don’t think Perl is complicated enough. I know! I’ll figure out a way to translate Perl into Latin!”

#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w

use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;

maximum inquementum tum biguttam egresso scribe.
meo maximo vestibulo perlegamentum da.
da duo tum maximum conscribementa meis listis.

dum listis decapitamentum damentum nexto
fac sic
nextum tum novumversum scribe egresso.
lista sic hoc recidementum nextum cis vannementa da listis.
cis.

(via kottke.org)

(The most impressive part is how he figured out to make it so that token order doesn’t matter (as much).)

One Response to “Why? Because he can.”

  1. Jon Identicon Icon Jon Says:

    I took a look through this guy’s paper. I can’t figure out if its done in all seriousness or is incredibly tounge in cheek. Its pretty funny/impressive either way

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