Re: Re: Re: Learning Perl as a First (programming) language

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Re: Re: Learning Perl as a First (programming) language
in thread Learning Perl as a First (programming) language

If you are going to explain how Perl lets you learn, why don't you show that in the form that beginning programmers should learn?

for my $i (0..9) {
  print $i;
}

Less mechanics to remember, and no possible confusion over off by one errors. Or even in this case (depending on which way the example was going to develop) just:

print 0..9;

Either of these is more convincing than writing Perl like a C refugee.

[talexb]

The point that is appears you missed, my dear Watson :), is that I was debating similarities between C and Perl with Abigail-II. I was not trying to out-golf anyone on a zero to nine loop.

Particularly :) Abigail.

--t. alex

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