My college (RPI) has Perl courses, but they're often filled with FUD and cargo-cultism. The instructors don't use Perl enough to know how to explain things when they're asked questions. They don't test their code when they make assumptions about how the language works. Here are some examples:

Q: "How do you make a 2-d array?"
A: @x = ((1,2,3), (4,5,6))

"Oops, I made a mistake about 2-d arrays. You need to use references. But don't worry about them, because you hardly ever need them."

# different instructor -- she knew about references ;)
sub array_cmp {
  my ($aref, $bref) = @_;
  my ($asize, $bsize) = (@$aref, @$bref);
  if ($asize != $bsize) { return 0; }
  # ...
}
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