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 Perl is a wonderful language for hacking together something useful in a short amount of time. No concept is complete without being able to use it in a perl one-liner. And that goes for Hurd translators too. Right?
 
+    #!/usr/bin/perl
+    use Hurd::translator;
+
+    #file named two can produce an endless supply of twos, etc. (a la /dev/zero)
+    my $i=-1;
+    for $filename ([zero one two three four])
+    {
+       $i++;
+       $libtrivfsread_codehash{$filename}=sub{ $num_bytes=shift; return chr($i) x $num_bytes; };
+       #that's a hash of references to closures
+    }
+    translator_startup();
+
+## <a name="Source_code"> Source code </a>
+
+Here's a crazy thought. How about a translator for source code. You have a C source file like `hello.c` which is your normal everyday file. But there's a translator sitting underneath, so when you `cd hello.c` you get a directory with files like `main()` which represent the subroutines in `hello.c`. And of course you should be able to edit/remove those and have it modify the original source.
+
 -- Greg Buchholz - 25 Jul 2003
 
 Minor formatting updates.