I have some XBASIC (www.xbasic.org) code where the most significant part implements a model for biology (4k lines code). I would love to translate it to my favorite language, guess what: perl. Scientific codex requires that the code is identical, and therefore my simulations with model.

1) Is there a way (may be from QA or Testing) to test semantical equity of the models ? I mean that i didn't made mistakes during translation.

2) I thought that some automated translation would be the best choice. Anybody experience with an XBASIC->Perl translator (does any exist).

3) Because i never used BASIC, is there any reference or pitfalls-list for perl programmers. I.e. first array index in BASIC is 1 and not as in perl/c/cpp 0.

Thanks for any suggestions/comments to the three questions,

Cheerio,
Murat

20040416 Edit by Corion: Removed PRE tags, added formatting

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