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Comment on Genesis: an interpreted, Turing-complete Paleo-Hebrew programming language

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Strange to take the effort regarding paleo-Hebrew, but not use it with Yahweh's (๐ค‰๐ค„๐ค…๐ค„) name in the title. Guess a Cohen will fork it.

schoen

But you're not supposed to take the name of the Lord in main().

Just make sure that no other variables like any blasphemous globals are declared before the one true declaration. (Returning false anonymous) nested functions, which may cause side effects, seem necessary unless the interpretation is such that the only implementation is near to the one combinator basis https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.19.....

epilys

You can't say the Tetragrammaton out loud though.

Personally I find it hilarious that apparently in more than one case the common Hebrew spelling of YHWH, ื™ื”ื•ื”, was wrongly understood or just misspelled as ฯ€ฮนฯ€ฮน (pee-pee) in Greek texts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton

Then don't say it or substitute "my lord" when spoken. No prohibition against it writing it.

schoen

In Orthodox Judaism there is also a rule against erasing or defacing names of God (instead, you're supposed to bury them in a cemetery).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genizah

That also then generates a reason to try to avoid writing these names unnecessarily, because using them unnecessarily increases the chance that someone will deface them, or creates extra material that has to be disposed of carefully.

The "rule" or concept appears in BT Shabbat 115a, which directs that holy writings in other than the <Hebrew and Greek languages> (Targum) require "Genizah" that is, preservation: https://www.jewish-funerals.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/J.... This appears to be in Hebrew and remaining electronic leaves nothing to bury.

epilys

That's correct, but my comment was basically an indirect suggestion of using peepee as a syntax keyword or language name.

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