On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:18:55AM -0800, WWW wrote: > > So why don't they teach Perl at the University level? Based on my > experience, the answer is simple: Very few faculty and staff know Perl > well enough to teach it. I was in school not that long ago, and I didn't > know any prof's or asst. prof's that knew Perl to any significant level. > There were a few grad students who knew Perl, but even they weren't > knowledgable enough to put together curriculum.
Well, I know Perl quite well, and I've worked for several years as staff at the CS department of a university. I certainly wouldn't suggest a university should teach Perl. As I explained before, I find Perl too feature rich to serve as a first language, or as a language to demonstrate either algorithms or formalisms with. Nor is it an ideal language to disect in a course about compiler building. Once students know how to program, it's not the task of a university to give courses in languages. They should be able to learn for themselves. Abigail
