perlmeditation
Chady
<p>I've been wondering lately, is it bad to learn Perl first?</p>
<p>My programming languages experience started with BASIC, then VB and then I quickly moved
on to Perl. I loved the language and everyday I get a little bit more involved in it.</p>
<p>This year I switched majors and went into <em>Computer Science</em>, I took
<code>Programming I in C++</code> and I'm dreading it. Now, everytime the teacher is
explaining something I think, <em>"well, why all the fuss? I can do that in two lines of
perl."</em> and I can't seem to appreciate any other language as I do with Perl.</p>
<p>So I'm currently thinking, is it a bad thing to learn Perl first? Should one keep this
gem of a language till a later stage to meditate upon?</p>
<p>Do you agree? Disagree? please share your thoughts about this.</p>
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