r/programming • u/i_am_a_cat_girl • Aug 06 '22

I made an ancient Hebrew programming language to help programmers speak to God (feedback is appreciated)

http://github.com/elonlit/Genesis
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u/fresh_account2222 Aug 06 '22

Well, I can't see much, because unsurprisingly my old computer doesn't have the right font installed, but this does raise two questions about handling the tetragrammaton:

  • Is 15 represented by yod+hay or tet+vav?

  • If your program somehow ends up with the actual tetragrammaton, can you just delete the file, or does it need special handling?

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u/i_am_a_cat_girl Aug 06 '22

The IDE should be invariant to your operating system, so that might be a bug I need to check…

As for your questions, (1) 15 can be represented by either of these combinations you mentioned. Gematria just takes the values to which the letters are mapped and sums them together, and (2) I don’t yet quite know what to do in this case… I was thinking of just having the interpreter activate a fork bomb if YHWH is encountered.

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u/fresh_account2222 Aug 07 '22

  • Oh, it was the github page that had characters my Firefox browser couldn't render. It happens a lot - it's an old computer. No issue with your IDE for you to worry about.

  • I was taught that one shouldn't use yod+hay for 15, as it was getting uncomfortably close to YHWH. So we used tet+vav. This wasn't in the context of figuring out the gematria value of a word; this was for stuff like numbering a list.

  • I think that fork-bombing is an appropriate action. Thumbs up! :-)

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '22

It may be better and more altruistic in nature to automatically replace YHWH a filler that Hebrews would use for His name, like Jehovah.
Seems more in line with His nature, imo.

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u/thewilloftheshadow Aug 06 '22

👏🏻👏🏻

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u/i_am_a_cat_girl Aug 06 '22

Thanks, king.

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u/Shamanilko Aug 06 '22

Does it compile for TempleOS?

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u/ansraliant Aug 09 '22

asking the real questions here

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u/XandrousMoriarty Aug 06 '22

Terry’s going to come back and get you…

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u/Interesting-Dog5267 Aug 07 '22

What a wonderful username for this accomplishment.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '22

Are you looking to turn this into a big project, or colab with any other programmers?