I agree with fireartist, perl don't run on playstation.
Some universities run games programming courses usally based around platform specific development environments. What part of games do they want to program? a few physics or AI lessons might be handy

If it is just a grounding required then good programming is largely language independent and pseudo code will probably sufffice.

Being entrenched in a perl way of doing things is no better than being entrenched in a java one