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Issue #559 - 2022-04-11 - Endangered and dying languages
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Hi! While the population of the world is growing the language-diversity is shrinking. There are many languages that are used less and less. (Wikipedia has a list by location. I am sure as programmers there are plenty of thing we can also do to help. That's why I have been investing time in LibreLingo project and specifically in Judaeo-Spanish (aka. Ladino, or Judezmo). Now I can also show you the dictionary I have been working on. You can type in words in any of the languages listed there and it will try to find the Ladino word for it. The dictionary is still small. It contains only 3,500 words, but I hope I'll be able to enlarge it to help people who would like to learn Ladino. It was a very slow week and I hardly found any articles to include (besides the Weekly Challenge that Mohammad collects), but there were also new authors. Let me congratulate to Julien Fiegehenn and Scotticles for their first posts. Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Aristotle Pagaltzis (ARISTOTLE) When Aristotle writes: "Perl has two operators, cmp and <=>, which are basically never seen outside of sort blocks. That doesn't mean you can't use them elsewhere, though." I think oh-oh, here comes the scary part :-) |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Four Is Magic" and "Equilibrium Index". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the FAQ. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Farey Sequence" and "Moebius Number" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Adam Russell The Adam's blog Notes section sharing very interesting aspects of the task. Highly recommended. | 
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by Arne Sommer Arne used the power of Raku to the extreme and present us cool solutions. Thanks for your contributions as always. |
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by C.-Y. Fung Cheok-Yin doesn't blog regularly but every time she does, we get a treat. I really enjoy behind the scene story. Keep it up great work. |
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by Colin Crain After a long time, seen Moo based package solution. It makes code so clean. Just loved it. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Colin Crain Loved the Raku version more than the Perl. You don't want to miss the story around the task. Keep it up great work. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) To be honest, I enjoy the introduction more than the solution itself. Solution is self explanatory, thanks for sharing the knowledge. | 
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by James Smith A very thorough solution, like every week. I wish I could do the same complete with performance matrix. Keep it up great work. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Use of method signature in Perl solution makes it very similar to Raku. It would be nice to see it become part of core Perl. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Raku method name with Unicode character. Really cool, never seen before. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld It's treat to see rational data type Rat in action. Thanks for sharing Raku and Perl magic with us. |
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by Luca Ferrari Luca has been sharing Raku magic for years now. This week was no different, a very compact solution. Keep it up great work. |
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by W Luis Mochan A complex one-liner in Perl as always. Thanks for your support and contributions. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) This week, we got the glimpse of JavaScript. What a treat, thank you for everything. |
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