You advocate Perl for learning. Let's collect some good examples in Perl with discussion in a wiki. They may be easy to gather and good to learn from, especially when annotated.
You say the marks on variables make it easy to follow. Couldn't we make a Perl program to annotate a Python program just that way? Maybe a few hints in comments might be needed in the Python program to make it easy to accomplish with Perl rather than a full language recognizer.
Wouldn't a wiki be a fine home for each such handy source program? The FAQ could accumulate in place. And you automatically get a full history of the source updates for free. Including comments.
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You say good things.
You advocate Perl for learning. Let's collect some good examples in Perl with discussion in a wiki. They may be easy to gather and good to learn from, especially when annotated.
You say the marks on variables make it easy to follow. Couldn't we make a Perl program to annotate a Python program just that way? Maybe a few hints in comments might be needed in the Python program to make it easy to accomplish with Perl rather than a full language recognizer.
Wouldn't a wiki be a fine home for each such handy source program? The FAQ could accumulate in place. And you automatically get a full history of the source updates for free. Including comments.
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