That is in part what I was doing here. Some "other" languages:

  2H_2 + O_2 -> 2H_2O

  Ca-48 + n -> g + Ca-49 -> B- + g + Sc-49 -> B- + g + Ti-49

  X = R^{-1} D R

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But the object is to separate the human written language (English) from something else. Perl happens to be a good example of something else, when the document is a man page. Ideally, the documents wouldn't have content of the above examples, but rather an instruction to import that content from somewhere. Skipping over the import instruction would be easy. But people will manually enter stuff like the above anyway.

In reply to Re^2: Recognizing Perl in text by Anonymous Monk
in thread Recognizing Perl in text by Anonymous Monk

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