Israeli Singer Publishes a Song In Hebrew — and Perl 69
Noiser writes "The Israeli pop singer Aya Korem published her new song "Computer Engineer" as a website that shows translation to the Perl programming language along with the lyrics. Perl is quite a good match, given that the Perl community has a long tradition of publishing "Perl poetry", and this song proves that this tradition is very much alive. No Flash is required to view the website, so if you are an HTML5 geek, have no worries."
A *real* artist would have done it in Assembly (Score:5, Funny)
Hack!
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A real artist would have assembled windchimes of magnets and hard disk platters. As the breeze blows, it simultaneously plays the music and writes it to disk.
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A real artist would have used C-x M-c M-butterfly ...
Re:A *real* artist would have done it in Assembly (Score:5, Funny)
I think you're referring to "JUMP" by Van Halen?
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C'mon, now, a real perl monger would have written Lingua::Hebrew, then compiled the lyrics into bytecode. Since Latin and Klingon are both supported, Hebrew seems like a reasonable next step.
punctuation (Score:3)
At least perl has punctuation. Hebrew would be hard to read.
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Huh. (Score:2)
That's actually pretty good. I've never been happier that I speak Hebrew. And perl.
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That's actually pretty good. I've never been happier that I speak Hebrew. And perl.
Yes, but which one is which? The green letters are Hebrew and the guttural sounds are Perl, I take it? For me, it's like being helful and offering a translation of a Xhosa text in Mandarin Chinese...
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The lyrics are entirely Hebrew, the text on the screen is entirely perl?...
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The lyrics are entirely Hebrew, the text on the screen is entirely perl?...
Yes, but if both Hebrew AND Perl are all Greek to me, doesn't it stand to reason that I might have trouble telling them apart?
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Not when one of them is visual and the other is aural! (:
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Perl is the one where you can recognize the individual characters.
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That's actually pretty good. I've never been happier that I speak Hebrew. And perl.
Me either. Of course, I've spoken neither Hebrew nor Perl for approximately 10 years, but we'll just ignore that.
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I still speak perl occasionally, and since I still have parents I do occasionally have to experience Hebrew.
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I still speak perl occasionally, and since I still have parents I do occasionally have to experience Hebrew.
My condolences. On the perl, that is. Hebrew-speaking parents can be great fun. I don't have any myself, so I just have to live vicariously through others.
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I actually enjoy Perl.
Here's some vicariousness for you, I was just on skype with my dad and he practically forced me to watch a bunch of youtube videos. Ah, technology.
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I'm glad that you enjoy perl. To me, it just looks like Q*bert swearing.
Hope you got to see some good youtube videos!
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If you think that looks like cartoon swears, you should see old Sendmail configuration files...
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If you think that looks like cartoon swears, you should see old Sendmail configuration files...
Sorry, I only practice S&M with a partner.
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It'd be kinda weird to do it alone!
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It'd be kinda weird to do it alone!
I agree! But once again, the Internet proves that if you can think of it, it exists [wikipedia.org].
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Thank you ONCE AGAIN internet for broadening our horizons, whether we like it or not.
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Thank you ONCE AGAIN internet for broadening our horizons, whether we like it or not.
I guess I forgot the corollary to "if you can think of it, it's real, and you can find it on the Internet." Corollary: and there is already a porn site for it.
I'm at the office so I can't google *that* for you. You'll just have to trust the rules of the Internet.
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If you think THAT looks like cartoon swears, you should see APL code.
I'm confused (Score:2)
The music I get, but how does this tie in with the Perl code? Is this the madness one falls into after graduating from basic Perl Zealotry?
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At some points the Perl corresponds to the song. Like a clap(2) and commands to output Ahhs and stuff. Perhaps the meaning of the lyrics is more synchronized to what the code does, but mixing three languages (Perl, English and Hebrew) makes it harder to figure out for most of us.
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As I'm watching it, the Perl code continues to be written on the screen long after the song has ended. Is everyone else seeing that? Is it supposed to be that way, or does it matter?
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For me it was opposite. At the end the clap lines preceded the song for five or six seconds.
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The music I get, but how does this tie in with the Perl code? Is this the madness one falls into after graduating from basic Perl Zealotry?
The perl code fits with the lyrics of the song. I'm guessing that this was your typical geeky "because I can" type exercise.
Really well done (Score:2)
Re:Really well done (Score:5, Funny)
I only know Perl, but I still found the Hebrew easier to understand...
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I can parse the Perl perfectly; Though the performance was pleasing, the prose would perform poorly due to parsing problems:
# Song Ends HERE
Sure some sentient system sees that and stops the song, but to a sub-sentient server saying some secret something isn't sufficient; The sub scope is still standing wide open. She should suffix a single syntactic 'stop' symbol: }
Perl poetry (Score:2, Funny)
Perl poetry looks only marginally better than Vogon poetry.
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But does it sound better than Klingon Opera [youtube.com]?
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Please, no one is buying your "apartheid" BS here. The Palestinians have few options because of their own actions. Take your intellectually dishonest and hypocritical "boycott" elsewhere. Whether or not one agrees with Israel this stuff is stupid showboating that does absolutely nothing to address any of the issues on either side.
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Do Palestinians in the West Bank under Israeli occupation get a vote in Israeli elections?
Seeing as there are 12 Arab members of the Knesset [wikipedia.org] it seems that Palestinians are represented. How many non Arabs are there in the Palestinian government? How may Jews are allowed to live anywhere in Palestinian territory? If you really want to see racist (maybe even "apartheid?") rule look no further than the PA.
Does that become less justifiable the longer they are occupied?
Will it be any different to apartheid when the occupation is centuries old instead of a few decades?
Invalid question. They are 'occupied' due to their own actions. If there is justification for an action initially, then the justification would remain the same as long as the initial condition
Before you all get too excited (Score:2)
She's kinda Michael Bolton of Israel..
cute clip though
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Michael Bolton? Don't exaggerate. More like Sandi Thom.
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I'm gonna go ahead and sort of disagree with you on that ;)
I guess it's subjective anyway
Bug Report (Score:1)
The programmer appears to be confusing the 'eq' and '==' operators; the 'eq' operator in Perl is used for string comparison, while == is used for numerical comparison. The result of using '==' on two strings, e.g. "M" == "F" will always be true, in the sense that 0 == 0. The 'eq' operator *can* be used to test whether 1 == 1, but will report that "1.0" does not equal "1".
Example:
Recommend developing a battery of tests using Test::More to verify the author's
Tsk, tsk (Score:1)
No "use strict" ? No "use warnings" ? I've stopped reading already.
Hewbrew? (Score:1)
So no
use English;
TIOBE boost? (Score:2)
WARNING (Score:3)
Link to a song that plays outright at a very loud volume with no volume control so you have look for pulseaudio volume control instead. That must be awesome and revolutionary web 3.0.
Anyway, the song is all in arabic with the singer saying "Hachem" here and there, so you can't understand anything of it.
Translated lyrics (Score:4, Informative)
(from the Hebrew, not the Perl)
It's funny that you married a computer engineer
It's funny, in the end you went to study like everyone
You told me you wanted to live out of the box
You told me you wanted to conquer the world
I remember you breathing
It's funny that you now have a office and secretary
And a beautiful white Mazda company car
You told me once you are afraid of commitment
You told me you can't be mine
I remember you breathing
Ai-oh He has no problems
Ai-oh He's definitely a lucky guy
Ai-oh He has an investment fund
Ai-oh He definitely wants to die already
Let me guess, you bought a house in the neighborhood
To not be far from the parents
How all the houses look exactly the same
And all the people look very happy
I remember you breathing
Ai-oh He has no problems
Ai-oh He's definitely a lucky guy
Ai-oh He has an investment fund
Ai-oh He definitely wants to die already
English? (Score:2)
Unoptimized! (Score:2)
Code sure could use some cleaning up (all those "foo's" !!!). But I suppose that (and obvious subroutines) would detract from the musical flow of the thing.
Clever, still.