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Re:John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented by webreac on Friday March 22, 2013 @04:21AM (#5421882)
"Ithkuil has two seemingly incompatible ambitions: to be maximally precise but also maximally concise". I immediately thought about perl.
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Re:John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented by flyinRyan on Friday March 22, 2013 @08:58AM (#5422606)
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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