Hello, fellow Monks.
Mago just asked me to try to rewrite his question. Reading the answers, I figured ou that the most of the fellows just figured out The Right Thing and gave his/her answers for the Right Question.

On the other side, several Monks just asked "what's going on here?" and can't figure that out for (?:him|her)selves.

The question Mago asked is more correctly expressed like this:

Please tell me what you think about teaching Perl as the first-language for students at a computer science academic course, what do you see as good things or bad things in choosing perl as the first language?

"In few words, translating PerlMonks documentation and best articles to other languages is like building a bridge to join other Perl communities into PerlMonks family. This makes the family bigger, the knowledge greater, the parties better and the life easier." -- monsieur_champs

In reply to Teaching Perl as the First Language in an Academic Course - Good or Bad Thing? by monsieur_champs
in thread Teaching Perl inside an Academic Course by Mago

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