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in reply to How bad it is to learn Perl?
In a nutshell keep in mind that every language has it's purpose (maybe even COBAL). While you can do a lot in a few lines of Perl, it's important to consider what exactly Perl is hiding and doing for you. Many lower level optimizations for C++ also work for Perl, but can easily be glossed over if you don't understand what's going on in the guts. -- Well if optimization is important to you anyway :) Keep in mind that learning an approach in one language, can teach you a lot about other languages too. Learning Lisp for instance, gives you a pretty good understanding of recursion fairly quick. |
Re: Re: How bad it is to learn Perl?
by mr2 (Friar) on Jul 20, 2002 at 17:53 UTC
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in our country (Lithuania/Europe) we learn PASCAL at
scool (well not me anymore ;))
yes i agree that perl is a very siple to learn (at least
the basics) ... but if we talk about my country
there no (almoast no) realy good perl programmers...
and it would be difficult for every scool to have
a teacher who knows at least the same basic's of perl
he would teach...
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