What's your favorite "dead" language?

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We recently asked our writers this question: what’s your favorite “dead” language? Some of the responses were not at all what we were expecting. For starters, perhaps we should have specified that we were asking about programming languages.


“Latin.” —Chris Short

“Middle English. Pre-Chaucer, really (which feels a little modern). Something like Malory’s ‘Le Morte D’Arthur’ is about right.” —Mike Bursell

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Standing just over 2 meters and hailing from о́стров Ратма́нова, Dasuberworm is a professional cryptologist, entrepreneur and cage fighter. When he's not breaking cyphers and punching people in the face, Das enjoys receiving ominous DHL packages at one of his many drop sites in SE Asia.

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