I think you are right on track on the motivation issue. The most important thing for me is having an interesting problem to solve.
I have mixed feelings about the usefulness of knowing a "similar" language. Understanding the basics of another programming language will acellerate your education in perl, but you will also bring some bagage from that other language with you. For example, how would you find an instance of a character pattern within a string in BASIC? Or C? or Pascal? Now are any of these approaches the best way to do it in perl? Of course the beauty of perl is that you can take almost any approach you want to solve a given problem. TIMTOWTDI! Rather than knowing a simliar language to perl you may be better off knowing many languages that are not like perl.
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