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Israeli Singer Publishes a Song In Hebrew — and Perl

Posted by timothy on from the tank-driver-coder-songwriter->-singer-song-writer dept.

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."

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  1. A *real* artist would have done it in Assembly by TWiTfan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hack!

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    1. Re:A *real* artist would have done it in Assembly by SJHillman · · Score: 1

      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.

    2. Re:A *real* artist would have done it in Assembly by Kagetsuki · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think you're referring to "JUMP" by Van Halen?

    3. Re:A *real* artist would have done it in Assembly by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 1

      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.

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    4. Re:A *real* artist would have done it in Assembly by maxwell+demon · · Score: 1

      A real artist would have used C-x M-c M-butterfly ...

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  2. Huh. by Jethro · · Score: 1

    That's actually pretty good. I've never been happier that I speak Hebrew. And perl.

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    1. Re:Huh. by Mystakaphoros · · Score: 1

      At least when I try to read Hebrew I can mumble the consonants out... I don't do so well with Perl.

    2. Re:Huh. by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      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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    3. Re:Huh. by Slashdot+Parent · · Score: 1

      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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    4. Re:Huh. by Jethro · · Score: 1

      The lyrics are entirely Hebrew, the text on the screen is entirely perl?...

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    5. Re:Huh. by Jethro · · Score: 1

      I still speak perl occasionally, and since I still have parents I do occasionally have to experience Hebrew.

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    6. Re:Huh. by Slashdot+Parent · · Score: 1

      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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    7. Re:Huh. by Jethro · · Score: 1

      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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    8. Re:Huh. by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      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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    9. Re:Huh. by Jethro · · Score: 1

      Not when one of them is visual and the other is aural! (:

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    10. Re:Huh. by Slashdot+Parent · · Score: 1

      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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    11. Re:Huh. by Jethro · · Score: 1

      If you think that looks like cartoon swears, you should see old Sendmail configuration files...

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    12. Re:Huh. by Slashdot+Parent · · Score: 1

      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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    13. Re:Huh. by Jethro · · Score: 1

      It'd be kinda weird to do it alone!

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    14. Re:Huh. by Slashdot+Parent · · Score: 1

      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.

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    15. Re:Huh. by Jethro · · Score: 1

      Thank you ONCE AGAIN internet for broadening our horizons, whether we like it or not.

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    16. Re:Huh. by Slashdot+Parent · · Score: 1

      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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    17. Re:Huh. by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 1

      I hope you don't write code if you're struggling with that site.

    18. Re:Huh. by maxwell+demon · · Score: 1

      Perl is the one where you can recognize the individual characters.

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    19. Re:Huh. by ccandreva · · Score: 1

      If you think THAT looks like cartoon swears, you should see APL code.

  3. I'm confused by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 1

    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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    1. Re:I'm confused by Dan+East · · Score: 1

      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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    2. Re:I'm confused by Slashdot+Parent · · Score: 1

      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.

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    3. Re:I'm confused by OakDragon · · Score: 1

      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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    4. Re:I'm confused by anagama · · Score: 1

      For me it was opposite. At the end the clap lines preceded the song for five or six seconds.

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  4. Really well done by Sez+Zero · · Score: 1

    I don't speak Hebrew, but I got a pretty good idea of the lyrics from the Perl.

    1. Re:Really well done by elashish14 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I only know Perl, but I still found the Hebrew easier to understand...

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    2. Re:Really well done by VortexCortex · · Score: 1

      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: }

  5. Perl poetry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perl poetry looks only marginally better than Vogon poetry.

    1. Re:Perl poetry by Mystakaphoros · · Score: 1

      But thankfully leaps and bounds ahead of the works of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings.

    2. Re:Perl poetry by cold+fjord · · Score: 1

      But does it sound better than Klingon Opera?

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  6. Re:boycott by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    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.

  7. Before you all get too excited by Begemot · · Score: 1

    She's kinda Michael Bolton of Israel..

    cute clip though

    1. Re:Before you all get too excited by Noiser · · Score: 1

      Michael Bolton? Don't exaggerate. More like Sandi Thom.

    2. Re:Before you all get too excited by Begemot · · Score: 2

      I'm gonna go ahead and sort of disagree with you on that ;)
      I guess it's subjective anyway

  8. Bug Report by Beltway+Prophet · · 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:

    $ perl -e 'print "M" == "F", "\n";'
    1

    Recommend developing a battery of tests using Test::More to verify the author's assumptions.

  9. Tsk, tsk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    No "use strict" ? No "use warnings" ? I've stopped reading already.

  10. punctuation by goombah99 · · Score: 2

    At least perl has punctuation. Hebrew would be hard to read.

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    1. Re:punctuation by bstarrfield · · Score: 1

      As a point of information, modern Hebrew also uses punctuation.

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    2. Re:punctuation by ubrgeek · · Score: 1

      More particularly, modern Hebrew uses vowels where Hebrew in the bible does not. Then there is the issue of "trop" which are symbols that give guidance to the melodic pronunciation of words used when reading the Torah during the service.

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  11. Re:boycott by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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 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 conditions are unchanged. And whether or not what you say is accurate has nothing to do with an intellectually dishonest 'boycott' of Israel. Although it is better than the usual Palestinian method of protesting, which is murdering Israeli women and children- if these are the only two options you can comprehend, then keep it up.

  12. TIOBE boost? by Sez+Zero · · Score: 1

    Does this mean Perl will see a boost in the next TIOBE index?

  13. WARNING by Blaskowicz · · Score: 2

    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.

  14. Translated lyrics by bluegutang · · 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

  15. English? by djbckr · · Score: 1

    I went and listened to the song, and though I couldn't understand it or the Perl on the screen, I enjoyed it. It would be awfully nice to see an English translation to I could follow along better. Is this something somebody here could do?

  16. Unoptimized! by Toad-san · · Score: 1

    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.