What are you trying to teach? If the aim is to teach perl then you really need to just bite the bullet and teach them perl as it is. If, on the other hand, the aim is to teach them programming, then maybe there is a pedagogical language you could use with keywords in $local_language. I know, for example, that there is a BASIC-variant in French, and someone else has mentioned Portugol. Both, I would imagine, would be reasonably comprehensible to a Spaniard or Latin American.

But whatever you do, a plain old Filter::Simple source filter is not the solution. By the time you've managed to get it working OK such that it doesn't "translate" quoted text, or trip up on keywords that contain other keywords ('and' and 'rand', 'or' 'for' and 'foreach', 'int' 'print' and 'sprintf', no doubt there are others), or methods and functions from other libraries (many classes have a 'print' method), you'll have written a perl interpreter yourself.

In reply to Re: Writting Perl reserved words in Spanish or other foreign languages by DrHyde
in thread Writting Perl reserved words in Spanish or other foreign languages by bquistorff

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