In regards to brother deps threads on a `perl book fund' and his follow-up; I truly think it is an inspiration of a genius. I also emphasize that school donations for perl classes is an excellent idea. I currently attend high school, and the only options for learning programming are C\C++ and JAVA; I don't even think the instructors are at all familiar with perl.

I think that school donations for Perl is a great idea. It would require:

money for books; which are expensive, but no more expensive than the big JAVA book I drag around.

qualified instructors to teach perl; I honestly would not want my java teacher to teach me a *real* language ;)

Although most high school's in the US (and abroad) have enough computers, it'd be really cool to donate a few cheap computers explicitly for UNIX and perl (possibly some relics dug up on ebay)

Now, I don't know how popular this would be to become mainstream, but I'm *very* excited about the idea, and, from the support deprecated is getting, I think others like the idea as well.

In reply to Perl in school by dusk

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