in reply to Obfu/golf Contest

I was tempted to translate the prompt and response too, but that would take it beyond the original spec: 

use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;

EGRESSO SCRIBE DICTUM SIC PLEASE ENTER THE STRING TO BE CIS
TUM LACUNAM TUM DICTUM SIC SEARCHED FOR THE STRING MONKEY
CIS TUM BIGUTTAM TUM LACUNAM. HUIC VESTIBULO PERLEGEMENTUM DA.
DICTUM SIC STRING MONKEY WAS CIS TUM LACUNAM SCRIBE EGRESSO.
SI HOC TUM DICEMENTUM SIC MONKEY CIS SCRUTAMENTUM TUM NULLUM
PRAESTANTIAM HOCQUE TUM DEMINUEMENTUM DICEMENTUM SIC MONKEY
CIS SCRUTAMENTUM TUM NULLUM PRAESTANTIAM FAC SIC EGRESSO
NOT INQUEMENTUM TUM LACUNAM SCRIBE CIS. SCRIBE EGRESSO DICTUM
SIC FOUND IN THE INPUT STRING CIS TUM NOVUMVERSUM.

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Note that this requires the 0.55 release of Perligata, which (due to the current CPAN woes) is currently only available from my personal mirror.

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Re: Real monks code in...
by TheDamian (Vicar) on Feb 20, 2003 at 05:01 UTC
    Hmmmmm...just realized that it's much more "monumental" when it's formatted properly: 
    use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;

EGRESSO SCRIBE DICTUM
SIC PLEASE ENTER THE STRING TO BE CIS
TUM LACUNAM TUM DICTUM

SIC SEARCHED FOR THE STRING MONKEY CIS TUM
BIGUTTAM TUM LACUNAM.
HUIC VESTIBULO PERLEGEMENTUM DA.

DICTUM SIC STRING MONKEY WAS CIS
TUM LACUNAM SCRIBE EGRESSO.
SI HOC
TUM DICEMENTUM SIC MONKEY CIS
SCRUTAMENTUM TUM NULLUM

PRAESTANTIAM
HOCQUE TUM DEMINUEMENTUM DICEMENTUM
SIC MONKEY CIS SCRUTAMENTUM

TUM NULLUM PRAESTANTIAM FAC
SIC EGRESSO NOT INQUEMENTUM TUM
LACUNAM SCRIBE CIS.

SCRIBE EGRESSO DICTUM
SIC FOUND IN THE INPUT STRING CIS TUM
NOVUMVERSUM.

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      Even better would be to ray-trace it with POV, which will easily create an object out of a text string processed through a truetype font, and then subtract that from a solid granite block. Print on a photorealistic printer.

      —John

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        Like this you mean?

        (That link will only be temporary. Maybe one of the Powers-That-Be can replace this node with the image itself? Or at least cache the image somewhere permanent?)

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Re: Real monks code in...
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Feb 21, 2003 at 18:08 UTC
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[d/l]
      Outstanding!
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Re: Real monks code in...
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Feb 20, 2003 at 22:42 UTC
    How about in Klingon? Did you ever get that out of alpha?
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