in reply to Re: Perl: friend or foe ?
in thread Perl: friend or foe ?

Perl certainly wasn't around when I started learning programming. Heck, Larry Wall wasn't even programming then. {grin}

I spent the first six or seven years learning (and later teaching) BASIC.

Then I discovered C, and Pascal, and FORTH, and Logo, and realized how much larger the world must be.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Re^3: Perl: friend or foe ?
by softworkz (Monk) on Apr 26, 2005 at 19:40 UTC
    Perl IS neat and nifty for just about anything! FYI Perl is taught at the "lower levels", I myself took Perl my second year, maybe you should change schools? I wish it was around when I was in High School, but as Merlyn points out Perl wasn't around yet. shudders at BASIC =:-)
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