I should have put these in the original post. Both are posts on perl.com, both are authored by Mark-Jason Dominus.

They give an idea of what I'm talking about (and I want to emphasize that I think the best place for it might not be its own section, but a subsection of Tutorials )

One valid worry is that there's enough opinions out there already about "how to do it", and this might end up just duplicating what goes on in the best of Seekers of Perl Wisdom threads; the original post is clear about the goals, and provides some code that does not work as the author wants it to, and various monks chime in with their proposed solutions. I envision rolling up the process a bit, in that the first step would be posted by someone who took "bad" code and generated something he or she is proud of out of it.
MJD's second "program repair shop"

MJD's first "program repair shop"

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

In reply to RE: Code Clinic by arturo
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