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Issue #605 - 2023-02-27 - Trying to save a disappearing language
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Hi there! In 1492 the Jews were expelled from Spain and 4 years later also from Portugal. Many of those Jews settled in the Ottoman Empire and kept talking and changing their language. This is what created the language we call 'Judeo-Espanyol' or in its modern name 'Ladino'. For 500 years these people kept speaking and improving their language which is now a mix of medieval Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Turkish, Greek, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic, and probably a few other languages. These Jews are usually referred to as the 'Sephardic' Jews because 'Sepharad' means Spain in Hebrew. It was originally written using old Hebrew letters called Rashi and Solitreo, but in the last 100 years or so it was switched to Latin letters. Unfortunately due to various reasons (The modernization of Turkey by Atatürk, the Holocaust, emigration to USA, Israel and elsewhere) the majority of remaining Ladino speakers switched to the local language and today there are only a few ten thousands of native Ladino speakers, most of them above 60. There are various grass-root projects to revitalize the language. One of them is called Kantoniko. It is a multi-lingual dictionary with sample sentences, audio, poster etc. There are also experiments to use the material for educational purposes for people who would like to learn Ladino. The project has some Open Source code written in Python and JavaScript. There is also a lot of data under various Creative-Commons licenses. I know Python is not your cup of tea, but the whole project might be interesting to some of you and might take a look at it. I recorded a series of videos in English about the site and how to contribute to it. Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Yuki Kimoto (KIMOTO) SPVM (Static Perl Virtual Machine) is a perl-ish static typed programing language. SPVM provides fast calculation, fast array operations, easy C/C++ binding, and creating executable files. | 
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by Mikko Koivunalho When container image gets passed around, the information about the required env settings will certainly get lost. Here is something of a solution to that: How to ensure you have the environment variables and values you need? |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) I see TDD as an ideal that you can rarely attain. In green-field projects I rarely know how things should work so my test-writing lags behind the code-writing. However usually after 'some' development I start to feel the lack of tests and then my focus changes. |
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by Tom Wyant (WYANT) On one hand I think having the tests ordered can be a good idea, but on the other hand we will also want to make sure that the success of the tests does not depend on their order and that they can also be executed in parallel. So I am not really in favor of specifying the order of the test. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Third Highest" and "Maximum XOR" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Yet another power packed solutions in Raku. Well done, keep it up. |
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by James Smith Beautifully crafted solutions in Perl as always. Thanks for sharing the nitty-gritty, hard to ignore. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Straight forward solutions in Perl and Raku is shared week after week without any fuss. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Raku magical power can make any solutions look elegant. Great work, keep it up. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Compact one-liner (kind of) in both Perl and Raku. Nothing less was expected from Laurent. Thanks for your contributions. |
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by Luca Ferrari Raku is playing the smart game and getting the job done without any trouble. Great job. |
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by W Luis Mochan Knows for this one-liner in Perl. He didn't disappoint us this week too. Well done. |
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by Robbie Hatley Simple for-loops is your friend this week. Robbie shared how? Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger never misses the opportunity to use the power tool of the language. Well done and keep it up. |
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by Simon Green Use of CPAN can be handy when it comes to Perl. By the way Python is not far behind either. |
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