In article <553920000.1040919539@[192.168.200.4]>, Steven Lembark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Java, C++, or whatever are about formalism, which is easy to teach. > > > > Perl is about getting work done, which is less easy to teach. > > > > I haven't seen Perl in any curricula other than extension courses. > > Extension courses tend to focus on practical things (real estate > > licenses, various IT certificates, and so on). > Exception is biology and bioinformatics, where there > is a large enough body of work in Perl that it is a > first language for many. Perl is a first language for many, but that doesn't make it any more a college course than anything else that people do in the real world. And who said doing science wasn't practical? :) Where have you seen formal courses in Perl? -- brian d foy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
