suaveant you have my vote!

A good grounding in C is possibly the best introduction to Perl I can think of, especially pointer concepts as Perl data structures are largely pointers to pointers to pointers to things..

One doesn't really go to college/university to become practical.. indeed if someone enters the workforce after university with any useful skills you'd have to ask yourself "what did they study??".

Perl is a pragmatic language, a bit like a hammer drill is very useful during construction. But the point of college (e.g. a civil engineering degree) is to learn how buildings stay up, not how to use a hammer drill..

So it is with software, if your boys can learn the concepts of programming and the science behind it (and various arts) then they will be much better grounded for adapting to Perl and other languages as need be.

In reply to Re^2: PERL Friendly Colleges by monarch
in thread PERL Friendly Colleges by ddebrito

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