Oops, forgot to reply to the list... 8-| ..
see this thread http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/7957, as I
recall basically it's possible to get most org-like behavior using
orgstruct-mode, but many are continually frustrated by the remaining
missing 20% of behavior.
...could you please elaborate,
> I know of org-babel, but the code produced is no legal Lisp/Perl code
> anymore...
I'm currently using Org-babel to write code in a variety of programming
languages, and I've had no problems running the tangled code.