I once went to an OReilly perl seminar (what can I say, it was around the corner from my house and my employer paid for it and gave me the time). Anyway, at lunch a fellow buttonholed me and kept insisting that I agree with him that Perl should be taught in his school (he was in economics at NYU). Finally, the only thing I could think of to say was: "It's sort of like music schools teaching rock and roll."
... But maybe things will change -- at least one school hired merlyn!

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