I have updated the code in my original post to output syntax errors and debug messages only if env var PERL_PYTHON_EXECUTOR_DEBUG is set (e.g. PERL_PYTHON_EXECUTOR_DEBUG=1 python my.pl)

I hope this serves as a springboard to experimenting with Perl embedded in C (you can run oneliner regexes in your code for example). and, why not?, XS.

Perl is great.

bw, bliako

p.s. there is github-linguist which detects the type of comp.language.