Use AI. Use it more and better. If you are not yet equipped to use it well - that is fine, learning takes time - but please do not inhibit those in the community who are.

That is the whole argument. The rest of this piece is why I think it is correct, and why I think the current register of the Perl community around this topic is costing us something specific and avoidable.

We took PetaMem's 13-year-old Lingua::* number conversion modules - dormant since 2013 with 17 languages - and brought them back to life. The suite now covers 61 languages across 7 writing systems (Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, Armenian, Hebrew, CJK), including all 24 EU official languages plus Latin, Hindi, Yiddish, Mongolian, Uyghur, and more.

New in this release: cross-language numeral arithmetic with overloaded operators, ordinal support for 14 languages, capabilities introspection, and a Galois-field-based transitive test that walks the entire number space across all languages - 5000 steps, zero failures.

my $a = Lingua::Word2Num->new("zwanzig");      # German 20
my $b = Lingua::Word2Num->new("šestnáct");     # Czech 16
say ($a + $b)->as('fr');    # trente-six
say ($a + $b)->as('la');    # triginta sex

Everything on CPAN: cpanm Task::Lingua::PetaMem