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minus-squareBatmanAoD@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·9 days agoIt’s actually just English with Greek letters, just as the user above writes in English but uses the þ (thorn) character.
minus-squareZahille7@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoI’ve been trying to read it for a couple minutes now and I feel like I’m too dumb to realize what it’s saying.
minus-squareBatmanAoD@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days ago Presumably, it already used SIMD, and that’s how the existing GNU utility beat Rust by a factor of 17x.
minus-squareechindod@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agoYeah. I know. And I could tell, but it drives me batty. But also: thorn is an English character!!
minus-squareBatmanAoD@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 days agoSure, Old English. But the commenter isn’t writing in old or even middle English.
It’s actually just English with Greek letters, just as the user above writes in English but uses the þ (thorn) character.
I’ve been trying to read it for a couple minutes now and I feel like I’m too dumb to realize what it’s saying.
Thanks
Yeah. I know. And I could tell, but it drives me batty. But also: thorn is an English character!!
Sure, Old English. But the commenter isn’t writing in old or even middle English.