I fully understand your love of Perl, great! Your feeling is shared by almost everyone here. However some of the things you said here need a little bit rethink. Couple of examples:

"The examples for algorithms are written in C with meaningless variable names like a, b, c, etc."

That has nothing to do with the programming language, in this case c, but rather the coding style of programmer. First, you can write c program with meaningful variable names, the language does not forbid you from doing so; Secondly, you can write a piece of Perl program with menaingless variable names, the language does not give you warning or error.

"the 'tediousness' of discussing computer programming/algorithms in C/C++"

The focus is the algorithm, the language is simply a helper here. On the other hand, is it a good idea to use Perl to talk about linked list or tree? No, as that's not how you do things in Perl. But you want to teach linked list or tree, what language do you use, use Perl or c?

In reply to Re: But I WANT to do everything in Perl! by pg
in thread But I WANT to do everything in Perl! by InfiniteSilence

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