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Hodie Natus Est Radici Frater

I am listening to Christmas songs in an attempt to start programming Christmas morning’s special edition of Music from the Glen. Maddy Prior’s CD A tapestry of carols has a track called Personent Hodie, a thirteenth century Christmas hymn. I misread this initially as “Persistent Hoodie” which I thought was a strange name for a track.

While doing random searches on the word ‘Hodie’, which I like, I found this interesting story about a Multics latin error message. I love that. The message translates to ‘today unto the Root a brother is born’ and refers to a problem where the root of the filesystem tree has a sibling node (which is impossible, and therefore is a pointer bug).

I think I am going to start writing latin error messages into my code. There is an online translator here.

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	Why stop at error messages? Why not write the code itself in Latin? :) http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Lingua::Romana::Perligata at 2005-12-21 21:57 by lamech


	hides at 2005-12-22 00:09 by cmh


	english to latin? I tried giving this translator a classic sentence...the boy gave a flower to the girl, to see if it could do the latin. Apparently this was a serious challenge to the engine. Maybe it only works with classic quotations. at 2006-1-5 17:13 by kmh

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