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From: Jochen Schmidt <jsc@dataheaven.de>
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Dodger wrote:

> "raj" <israelrt@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
> news:q9n6ft0pbn903d5gqqbjfjns0ae0kfvra9@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 4 May 2001 20:12:21 +0400, Faisal Halim
>> <faisal_halim@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> But please, do not inflict Perl and BASIC upon innocent children.
> 
> This is an _amazingly_ uninformed opinion.
> 
> I take it this writer is not very good with Perl because he refuses to let
> go of his more ancient prejudices. However, the assertation comes out
> absurd. There is no reason to keep Perl away from children just because
> Raj doesn't like it.

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)

Regards,
Jochen