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Are you... Larry Wall?


There are dozens of us. Dozens!


Honestly, every third Christian I know is a linguist/computer geek.


I’m an atheist, lol, but I still geek out on biblical archeology and ancient languages.


But how many can read Paleo-Hebrew?


I believe the gauntlet has been thrown down here. The challenge is not merely to read it, but to write it fluently enough to develop nifty code. Just read the FAQ! And Paleo-Hebrew fluency may not be the foremost obstacle — the numbering system is arcane and downright hostile to Westerners!


I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone turns this into a Perl dialect along the same lines as Lingua::Romana::Perligata.




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