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Jochen Schmidt <jsc@dataheaven.de> wrote in message news:<9d1ilh$g397v$1@ID-22205.news.dfncis.de>...
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> IMHO Perl has nothing and does nothing that would make it a good language 
> for language studies.
> But I wait to hear from you what concepts are best learnt by looking at 
> perl (besides the "How to not design a language" fact)


Perl is a good language to learn the principle that "just because i
can do something, it doesn't mean i should do it!".

Also, Perl has a lot of stuff in it from Lisp. I consider Perl to be
Lisp minus the pretty syntax. :-)

g