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Lectionary (Score:2)
Given your interest in the church calendar, etc., I thought you might be interested to know that Larry Wall's wife Gloria has a Bible reading schedule [wall.org] based on the Revised Common Lectionary. Now, my church doesn't use a lectionary, so I've never personally used this schedule, and this lectionary is from a consortium of Protestant churches, so you might not be interested, but I thought I'd mention it.
I wonder if religious geeks like to do Bible reading schedules. :)
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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Re:Lectionary (Score:1)
Next, I'll give it iterators, so I can iterate over "jn8:32-35,37-40,42" and then I'll hook it up to a bible.
Sword is (as I understand it) not capable of providing a Catholic bible.
rjbs
Re:Lectionary (Score:2)
Next, I'll give it iterators, so I can iterate over "jn8:32-35,37-40,42" and then I'll hook it up to a bible.
Will each use of the iterator provide a verse? How about iterating over John 3-7? Would it provide 5 chapters in 5 calls, or every verse of those 5 chapters?
Just asking the tough design decisions to force you to answer them up front before coding. :)
Sword is (as I understand it) not capable of providing a Catholic bible.
I did not know that, and had assumed they had that handled. Lookin
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:Lectionary (Score:1)
At the moment, "John 3-7" doesn't work, but "John 3;4;5;6;7" does and will iterate over every verse. The edge case that I'm avoiding is "John 3:2-7" which should go from 3:2 to 3:7, but one could argue that it's the same as 3:2-7:end. I think that a rule that says "if neither beginning nor end is versed, then it's tw
rjbs
Re:Lectionary (Score:2)
The edge case that I'm avoiding is "John 3:2-7" which should go from 3:2 to 3:7, but one could argue that it's the same as 3:2-7:end.
I would argue for the first interpretation. While I've occasionally seen attempts to notate with the second interpretation, it's confusing to human beings, let alone parsers, and comes off as a "mistake." If a person wants the second interpretation, it's easy enough to look up the last verse and notate the full thing, or even just 3:2-7:999. :)
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:Lectionary (Score:1)
I certainly do... for the first couple days anyway. :-) Then all those "look! a shiny!" jokes start to hit a little close to home.
The best advice I ever recieved was when someone pointed out to me that there are 31 chapters in Proverbs, i.e. one per day of the month.
The Proverbs have done a lot for me; the monthly iteration has helped get them into my self. And I actually do the reading (well, I do it often, anyway). That never
Re:Lectionary (Score:2)
I followed the Proverbs schedule for a little over 2 years, and it was great. I discontinued to make room for other reading, but I intend to put it back some day.
At the same time I also followed a Psalm per day schedule. I often got behind on this, but I always seemed to manage to catch up. I think I benefitted a lot from both of these plans. (And hitting Psalm 119 every 150 days was always a memorable event. :) )
One more I'll throw out that I have done at other times: Revelation 2-3 consists of sev
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers