Re: PERL as a first programming language?

Allen S. Rout (asr@rock.cis.ufl.edu)
28 Jul 1994 13:53:43 GMT

-=> Regarding: Re: PERL as a first programming language?:
-=> oz@nexus.yorku.ca (ozan s. yigit) sez:

> lwall:
>> I think people will latch rather quickly onto the Perl5ism ...

> what choice do they have?

Perl4? Worked pretty well heretofore... Shell? BASIC? Python? one of 10 other
languages?

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