I'm looking for coding technology. I want one unified space to work in that can represent perl code as squishy yet machiney objects (in the conventional sense) with styles to suit levels of abstraction I'm usually working at, but also works at the code hacking level.

It's kind of like the concept of changing the font size of code taken to an extreme. Glossing over is part of the process.

From this picture of what's there in the program, I want to take on a dimension of the test harness and test routines... Creating and handling test data should be easier, I've done lots of yaml test data. From here you could eg. run between two different versions of the code and get a picture of what was happening. See breakages as they are happening.

It's great to be typing code in one place and seeing something react accordingly in another place.

I'm also keen on pulling in CPANTS reports and using diag statements to receive specimens from deep in exotic systems and then using as test data to iron out all the kinks.

And it seems this kind of pulling in lifeforms from across cyberspace and figuring out how their language works and getting it going, is a big deal.

It would make me balance less plates while debugging too... That's a great idea. Man and machine need to work together as closely as possible...

In reply to coding technology by SteveEirium

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