16 May
2011
16 May
'11
2:34 p.m.
On Mon, 16 May 2011, David Griffith wrote:
I also recently found Dr Seuss stuff translated into
Latin. How about
Asterix in Gaelic?
Yes, but is there a translation of Knuth, K&R, or McCracken
("Guide to FORTRAN Programming") in Latin?
(I used to have a copy of McCracken in Spanish. When a cow-
orker needed to learn Spanish, it was a perfect tool.)
Back in the good old days, when students knew languages, I
used to start my microcomputer operating systems class with
"DOS ex omnes est divisa in partes tres"
Nowadays, nobody understands, and want to know,
"what do I click on?", rather than "how does it work?"
I would be willing to learn Greek just to read whatever
Diogenes wrote. But, alas, NOTHING seems to have survived,
except for anecdotes that have been mistranslated and
redone by people with agendas. (e.g. giving Plato a
plucked chicken)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com