in reply to Disadvantages of Perl?

I kind of agree with the fact that Perl might be a bad language to start off in.

The reason for this is that you can't truly appreciate Perl's ease of use until you've encountered other (horrible) languages such as C.

But on the other hand, it does give you the basic required knowledge: variables, loops, if constructs and so on.

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RE: RE: Disadvantages of Perl?
by Eugene (Scribe) on Jun 13, 2000 at 21:25 UTC
    Good point. I don't think that I would appreciate all the neat things of Perl if I hadn't spent my time with C and C++.
    The very first thing that made me like Perl were the pop and push functions. When I tried them out, i just set there with a silly smile on my face, thinking about the page of stack code in C++.
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