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[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Where's Latin and Summerian? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Are those programming languages?

[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 6 days ago

They could have been. ๐Ÿ˜Œ

[โ€“] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Just imagine any of these programming languages with keywords in Latin. One morning you're debugging a double ended queue and the next thing you know, a bit flip is being caused by a 300 year old spirit.

[โ€“] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure "computer" was even a profession back at that time.

[โ€“] Adalast@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Cult of Pythagoras would like to have a word with you.

The Greeks were very into geometry, a purely calculated algebraic proof didn't count for them.