Re: Universal Translator

Well, you've certainly asked for a lot. First things first: making perl pretty. Well, perltidy does a pretty good job in my opinion.

Abbreviated terms could be given an actual English word. One-character symbols/operators could be assigned a word.

perldoc English ;)

Also of help here are editor features. Vim has "abbreviations" which allow you to type one thing and another pops out. It's as easy as ":ab <before> <after>". Of course, this assumes that you fancy vi-like editors. I can't imagine that vi is the only editor to have this feature though. But, as long as we're on the subject of vim (and who doesn't like a good editor flamewar?), I find that it is a pretty good Perl development environment. Between syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, and code folding, I do alright by it.

thor

Feel the white light, the light within Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come

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Re^2: Universal Translator by chb (Deacon) on Dec 08, 2004 at 07:08 UTC
Of course emacs has abbreviations, too :-)	[reply]
Re^3: Universal Translator by thor (Priest) on Dec 08, 2004 at 13:30 UTC
I can't imagine that vi is the only editor to have this feature though. --me (from op) :-) thor `Feel the white light, the light within Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come`	[reply]