On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> I wonder how many Universities or other academic institutes
> teach Perl or use Perl for teaching some concept ?
I have gone back and asked various professors and the CSEE chairman at
U/Washington about using Perl as a teaching language. One of the
"problems" with Perl is it doesn't generally provide the constraints
needed in teaching CS concepts. This partly explains why they have
progressed from C to C++ to Java. (I was still blinded by Perl's charms at
the time I asked.)
But I wonder if Perl 6 might offer ways to create a learning environment.
Modules could be used that provide "best-practice" constraints that
correspond to lessons.
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things can go wrong at once.
