Re: RFC: How to survive your first few months of Perl

[ptoulis]

I think I fit the profile of your intended audience. My opinion is that it is not the technical features or the special libraries/modules that would appeal to programmers out of Perl. After all, pretty much anything can be done in any language.

For me it is the culture, the very 'character' the language possesses. It is so much different than any other (at least at the time it was written)and triggered so much interest in the scripting languages that it deserves at least taking a look at.

That's all. Oh! And use strict; of course!