yes I'm back in School and I am going the opposite direction. I know a fair amount of Perl and am learning C++. It is frustrating to spend hours on homework that could be done in 5 minutes using Perl. Also, there is no equivalent "C++ monks" or C-Monks for me to learn C as efficiently as I feel like I did Perl.
Huge advantage to learn both, I think. Things make much more sense (to me) when you figure out where some things in Perl are derived from or why they are needed. Like, referencing and pointers! The difference between heap and stack.