I started the noble art of coding when I as eight or so with javascript and playing around with variations of basic, *COUGH* batch programming, and anyting else I could find a interpreter/compiler for. I am now twelve and have been working with the far nobler art of perl for what will be a year now in november. I would reccommend that you let him use the parser but don't let him grow to dependent on it force him to try to port some of his parser scripts over to normal perl. oh well thats the end of my little rant. It looks like my title of youngest monk will soon be challenged :-)

"Sanity is the playground of the unimaginative" -Unknown

In reply to Re: Perl, children and foreign languages by beretboy
in thread Perl, children and foreign languages by t0mas

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.