Perl Code Revival: Writing Perl Scripts With Sentimental Value
Treating code as natural language, I revisited Perl for sentimental reasons & wrote a new app from scratch, no AI assistance needed! Next up: writing in other languages & sharing with the community
I am a philologist and I need to write texts: scientific papers, popularization articles. But sometimes I want to write code. I often treat code as natural language texts. Just as sometimes you want to try your hand at a new genre, you want to leave behind and offer the community code in a programming language that is not your primary language. I used to write a lot in Perl, it was my second language, but now I've thoroughly forgotten it. However, for sentimental reasons I'd like to have Perl code in my github account, so I had to remember it. I tried using ChatGPT to accomplish the task I wa...