Re: Advice on learning Perl and graphics

[LanX]

> should I really let him go deeper into outdated technology or do I finally have to tell him: "Yea, maybe you should go for Python after all. Or Rust."?

Well, he's 9 year old, when do you expect him to enter the job market and how can you know which technology will be on-date then? :)

I would let him play and experiment, I think Perl is a very good starting point for the concepts of most dynamic languages out there (mostly because they borrowed heavily from Perl or Perl did from them)

He could chose his path then, if he really continues to be interested in programming at all.

After all, the top-quality of a programmer is to be able to adapt to a new language.

It's true you can find a lot of teaching material out there for Python, but my experience is that quantity is not quality.

This "Python is easy" mantra is encouraging a lot of "easy" minds to write half-baked summaries.