Perl PPF processing modules WOULD be doing OK except perl's reference
and object syntax are a C*****R***K and only serve to cause intense pain.

Perl is not useable for structured programming beyond text processing and
1D lists and hashes. I could do this in C with my damn eyes closed.

Main problem currently seems to be that making a reader object and a
writer object leaves BOTH objects SHARING DATA. I do not understand how
this happened. The perltoot manpage seems to give arbitrarily different
syntax for writing to the hashes, practically like calling methods, except
*not*.

The stupid thing about Perl is (or one of them is) that they make things
that are, for all extents and purposes, much the same, have fairly
different syntax.... and then make things that are utterly utterly
unrelated have THE SAME syntax!!

(Next day)
OK, have started work on C parser for it, is taking a while but I'm making
it good. Not expecting any serious problems.
(Before 1st release)
C versions of parser and writer seem to have worked quite well, but I got so
fed up of working on this that I can't be bothered writing the utilities
I wrote them for. Will make them for the next release, after I've had a
break from working on Patel.
