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in reply to Unix and Perl
I think it's safe to say that perl was designed with existing Unix C and/or shell programmers in mind and as such is much easier to learn when you have some experience with those things.
The nice part though, is that because perl makes easy things easy, I think you'll more likely start succeeding immediately with perl as a starting point then the other way around.
Perhaps the biggest disadvantage to starting with perl and not the roots it was intended to improve upon is that you may not experience the joy that comes with the simple pleasures of doing easy things easily that in C/shell were a total hassle or fraught with peril. It was really quite a revelation for me.
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