I know -- it's a really tough call to make and it's really hard to remember back to when the basics seemed so hard.

I am reminded of my own education where I learned Pascal first and then took C as an elective. I know it's comparing apples to oranges (for the most part) but I feel Pascal was a waste of time.

C may have been harder to learn (especially if I had started out with it) but at least it was much more useful later on in life (both in later college classes and in the job market). My C (and C++) are very rusty these days but I still reap some benfit when trying to get things to compile. I don't think I have even seen any Pascal since college.

So I look at this and think to myself -- they will gain some beneift from learning the fundamentals in Spanish Perl but if they learn real Perl then they will also potentially benefit much more later on in life.

In reply to Re^3: Writting Perl reserved words in Spanish or other foreign languages by Argel
in thread Writting Perl reserved words in Spanish or other foreign languages by bquistorff

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