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webreac on March 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented

"Ithkuil has two seemingly incompatible ambitions: to be maximally precise but also maximally concise". I immediately thought about perl.

flyinRyan on March 22, 2013 [–]

What? You thought of perl as maximally precise? Have you ever used it? I wish I could find the link about MJD doing some perl consulting, fixing an apparent bug and then finding that what appeared to be a bug was yet another perl special case.

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