The Value of Latin
summary
Argues that classical Latin directly speeds up learning practical programming skills, showing concrete examples: reading SQL like a sentence (select id from table where id in (231) and year = 2018), handling conditionals via Latin conditional types so nested ternaries feel natural (nested ternary), and mapping subjunctive conditionals to asynchronous Futures while building an ETL pipeline in Scala with threaded sync/async code that runs in production; notes Latin has seven grammatical cases (six regularly used) and that the Scala ETL using futures succeeds with completed-value or exception semantics (future is complete).
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:48Verbs
- 4:22Cases
- 5:20Equus
- 5:42Equis
- 7:00The SQL
- 7:43Conditionals
- 8:15Conditionals in Latin
- 9:19Asynchronous Coding
- 9:38Future Less Vivid
- 11:09New Job
- 11:23The Unseen
- 12:59Latin Literature
- 14:48What I aspire to do
- 15:50Links between sentences
- 16:24Code
- 17:35Latin poetry
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