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jdb1729last Thursday at 3:59 AM1 replyview on HN

Sic itur ad astra! I spent some time and tokens generating these C99 applications and libraries all in classical Latin: https://github.com/jdb19937/apotheca. They all build with this C99 compiler + arm64 assembler + linker toolchain https://github.com/jdb19937/ccc (CCC = 300) which is included. But my favorite one of these repo is the 100+ test cases https://github.com/jdb19937/corpus that I used to iterate the compiler to bootstrappability. Nota: README.md ignorandum est. Anglice scriptum est ad barbaros ineruditos pecunia emungendos, lege LEGEME.md.


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wcareytoday at 4:44 PM

How did you compose the Latin? It seems... not very classical both in word selection and grammar. For example,

    /* Est c consonans (non vocalis, non spatium, non littera non-Latina)? */
seems a word-by-word translation of English words into Latin words ignoring the structure and syntax of classical Latin. Perhaps it ought to be something more like:

    /* Estne c litera consonans (neque vocalis, neque spatium, neque litera linguae aliae)?
edit: On reflection, notes on the return values of boolean functions probably ought to be some sort of utrum ...an construction.
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