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[Aug 24, 2020] Version 0.4 posted. Many small corrections,; POD and DATA statement processing implemented.

[Aug 18, 2020] Version 0.3 posted. Python 3.8 used as the target language

While Python 3.8 is not widespread, especially in corporate env. it is much easier to translate to it from Perl that to version 2.7 that was used in version 0.2

[Aug 10, 2020] Some reflections on alpha version 0.2

I never suspected that this will be such a crazy task.

Although the languages are rather close and influenced each other, the amount of detail necessary for the correct translation are mind-boggling.

What is funny is that the task which I planned to do in a couple of months took almost a year (10 month to be exact) to get to same reasonable alpha stage.

Of course this is a hobby project and the time I was able to spend of it was limited (say 40 hours in Feb and 40 hours in August; probably more then 100 or more in 2019 ), but it is calendar time that matters and in this sense this is yet another example how programmers underestimate the complexity of tasks, even if they understand what is ahead pretty well.

While writing this "transcriber" I discovered that I known neither Perl, nor Python. So this became an exercise of studying each language more then any other thing.