Re: [FWP] Limnophilous (was: The Perl Golf Apocalypse Experience)

[Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>]

>>>>> "AS" == Ariel Scolnicov <ariels@compugen.co.il> writes:

  AS> Not to start a language war, and hopelessly off-topic, but I think all
  AS> Perl lovers should switch to Hebrew.  Like Perl, it is painfully
  AS> _short_: For instance, I solved this puzzle in my head, and didn't
  AS> even need any extra letters (beth-gimel-daleth-heh, bagdah "she
  AS> betrayed", or bigdah "her garment", depending on how you put in the
  AS> vowels; also yod-kaf-lamed-mem, "will destroy them")!  Then I realised 
  AS> you had to do it in English...

heh!

my very rusty hebrew tells me almost any sequence of letters can be a
word in hebrew. hebrew scrabble i am told is not fun because of that.

and like perl, hebrew is very compact.

uri

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