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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;
}

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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;

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

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Re(4): Learning Perl as a First (programming) language
by talexb (Chancellor) on Aug 12, 2002 at 01:22 UTC
    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

    "Mud, mud, glorious mud. Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood!"
    --Michael Flanders and Donald Swann

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