I can't help you with figuring out the study/family balance, but ...

Perl is not a great language to use to learn programming. It's not clear from your post whether you're already a programmer or not - if you are, then great, carry on with perl, you'll find it really useful just for managing your own data even if you never use it for an assignment or commercially. But if you're not already a programmer, then IMO you're better off starting with something lower-level like C or even an assembler, as you'll get a much better feeling for how computers *really* work - and you'll also appreciate languages like perl, Java and Haskell much more when you get to them!

In reply to Re: Structured Learning of Perl, Important or Not? by DrHyde
in thread Structured Learning of Perl, Important or Not? by koolgirl

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