I find myself in an unusual situation. Usually we need to train C programmers in how to use this new fangled perl thing. But times have changed, and now I find myself with a class full of Perl programmers, many of whom have never used a C compiler before. I need to give them enough know-how to maintain XS code.

So now instead of having to explain how Perl automatically handles types and memory management, I need to explain that C doesn't handle types or memory management. And what a type is. And what memory management is.

All of my google searches return resources for C to Perl, I can't find anything on Perl to C. I'm looking at adapting a few simple "Intro to C" talks, but I'd like to take advantage of the similarities between Perl and C to speed this up.

How would you go about this?

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