And ChatGPT shouldn't be capable to port a piece of foreign code to Perl.

edit: fixed a few typos and added a couple of missing words that apparently formed in my head but my hands never got the message to actually type them in.

I can't test right now with a "pure" example because ChatGPT is overloaded.

Last week i got it to write me a simple license generator in Perl, then output the same thing in JavaScript and Python. I haven't run any of that code, i was only interested to see if it would use similar algorithms and variable names. I don't know my way around python, but the Perl code was nearly up to my style guide. And the Javascript code looked very much as if i had hand-ported that from Perl myself.

Since ChatGPT basically generates new text based on text already given to it in the conversation, it could do a good job at attempting to port foreign code to Perl. I doubt it would get it perfectly right, but even if all it did was to change the way constructs and variables are written (prefix-stuff, foreach loops and such), that could still potentially make the job go a lot quicker.

I do a lot of hand-porting between JavaScript and Perl and C(++). That's why you sometimes see me use C-style for loops when there's no need for it. It's just easier to port. Any (future) modern, automatic help that comes my way will be very appreciated.