Babel is a free and open-source JavaScript trans compiler that is mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ code into a backwards compatible version of JavaScript that can be run by older JavaScript engines.
Wait, that’s not right.
Babel is a psychological drama film made in 2006. I wrote a 26-page paper on the movie for a class called Chicano Literature. Terrible class; hated the teacher. The movie is good, but this is all that should be written about it: Humanity is connected including Brad Pitt.
That’s wrong too. Let me try again.
“The Tower of Babel” is a biblical story. The Babylonians built a tower. The tower was too tall. The tower was cramping God’s style. God said, “You Babylonians are cramping my style. Now you speak different.” The Babylonians were like:
“Parlez-vous francais?”
“Gesundheit.”
I can’t seem to get it. One more time.
“The Library of Babel” is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. In this story, there’s a fictional library said to contain all possible books with all possible orderings of the 25 basic characters (the 22 basic letters, the period, the comma, and the space). The library must contain every book ever written, every book that will ever be written, and every possible permutation of those books. Despite this wealth of knowledge in the library, most of the books are gibberish. Every possible permutation includes the permutations that mean nothing. There are an infinite number of books; most of them mean nothing. Some would say all of them mean nothing. Hence the “Library of Babel.”
That’s close, but I don’t know. Another one.
The Library of Babel is a website that made Borges’ fictional library a reality. The website uses an algorithm to generate every possible page within 32,000 characters. From the website, “If completed… (the library) would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be – including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains… about 104677 books.”
Nah. Not quite. Something else, but what?
Oh wait.
Here it is:
Gibberish. Rubbish. Balderdash. Poppycock. Hogwash. Mumbo Jumbo. Baloney. Malarkey. Gobbledygook.
Babel.
It means a lot.
Yet it literally means nothing.