Hi
Lately I've been sorta forced into looking into XML. During one of my sleepless night I started wondering about having Perl (or any programming language for that matter) translated in some kind of semi pseudo code. It would allow us (uhm programmers, hackers, whatever you want to call yourself) to write logics and have some preprocessort write the actual code. Before you all start --'ing this meditation, I'm aware of the fact that this would probably kill the fun of coming up with JAPH tricks or TMTOWTDI ways.

XML (with the right DTD) would suit the purpose, and it would improve porting issues for ancient applications. Personally, I'd rather use some kinda preprocessable pseudo code, than code in Cobol all day long. Anyway, some braindumps :

<Print Value="Hello World"></Print>

<Print>
 <Scalar Value="Hello"></Scalar>
 <Scalar Value="World"></Scalar>
</Print>

<Array Name="List">
 <Element Value="Foo"></Element>
 <Element Value="Bar"></Element>
</Array>

<Sub Name="Foo">
_yada yada_
</Sub>

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I'm probably not the first to think of it, and I wont be the last... but it's just a thought.

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.

In reply to Perl as XML by Beatnik

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