> that require munging large numbers of files in complex regexpish ways. > I've found that if you use "-w", "use strict", and "use English", perl > makes/allows you to write pretty reasonable code. Certainly code that > is far better (and usually faster) than sh.
If "-w", "use strict" and "use English" makes perl code more reasonable why don't we require that in the guidelines right now and put some effort in a perl2guile translator (everybody will benefit). Erick