A video in Latin about the compiler theory in programming

Composition and Communication The Agora
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Hey, guys!
So, yesterday, I made my first video in the Latin language that is about programming, more specifically, about the compiler theory. You can see it here: https://youtu.be/hlw72oFlKZA

I know there are a few mistakes, such as using “arbor” as a masculine noun instead of a feminine noun and once (but not consistently) using “pro” with accusative instead of ablative, but that does not seem to bother people. This video still went rather viral.

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Well, if that doesn’t tae the cake, I don’t know what does. I am just starting to learn Latin, and I was a software engineer/programmer for 32 years in the past. Will listen to the video and see if any Aho and Ullman comes back to me.

Thanks !
JP

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Thanks! By the way, what does “tae the cake” mean? I suppose it’s a misspelling of “take the cake”, but I still cannot guess what that means in this context.

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Yes, “take the cake” ! It’s slang, meaning if that doesn’t beat all or, in other words, a remarkable and unexpected surprise surpassing any other possible surprise.

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Just so to warn you, my video is not talking about optimizations. In fact, it barely mentions them. It just explains, in a very non-tehchnical manner, what is “tokenizer”, what is “lexical analyzer”, what is “parser”, what is AST, and so on…

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Not a problem ! I am far removed from that world now.

Thanks !

JP

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I assume you’ve watched my video thus far. I want an honest answer: What do you think about it? How can I improve it?

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I’ve published a new video about programming in Latin: https://youtu.be/wEBA075amUY?si=wEn1T-bs3J38UQWp

That video didn’t go nearly as viral as my previous video. I guess people who find Latin cool tend to find making programming languages cool, but they don’t tend to find front-end development cool.

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The last time I got near compiler theory was after finding the Aho and Ulman book at the Brown University bookstore, my God it must have been in the early 1980’s in my software developer hayday. My Latin is not nearly advanced enough to understand this and I keep getting interrupted by my literary Chinese learning as, for my field, Latin is secondary to that. But I’m about to ramp up study and progress soon. Thanks for posting !

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What are you studying at the university? If you are studying both Latin and Classical Chinese, but Classical Chinese is more important?

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Ha ! I’m a retired physician from Florida, my area is Chinese herbs and herbal formulas. Literary Chinese of the Qing Dynasty era (1600’s to 1912) is what I need to know in order to read the somewhat voluminous literature. At the same time, of course, in Europe, herbal books and manuscripts were being written often in Latin. So both language are of great use to the herbal researcher. Just to give an idea of the utility of this, a herb called ‘“Qing Hao”, western name “Artemisia’“, is now recognized by the World Health Organization as of great value in treating malaria, almost as good as modern drugs. Artemisia was being used by the Chinese for that purpose from the 1600’s.

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Hm, kind of weird. I was under the impression that there is no effective cure for malaria for the simple reason that malaria is caused by a protozoan. Protozoans have almost the same cell biology as we do, so the things that kill them should generally kill us too. It’s not as if protozoans had drastically different ribosomes or cell membranes than we do, like bacteria do (and that’s why there are so many effective antibiotics).

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I know next to nothing about them , just what was used to treat it.
I’m sure the biochemistry of it is a whole field in itself.