> Adam Turoff wrote: >> - Another reason why Perl is a minority language is that it's not >> used in academic curricula. > > An interesting point. > > > Sean Quinlan writes: >> I agree. I'd love to hear suggestions how to work on that. We teach some >> Perl at BU, both under the bioinformatics program and in some short >> tutorials, and I'm hoping to expand on that. I seem to recall Harvard >> having some courses. > > To be effective at growing the pool of Perl programmers I think Perl > needs to be used in a general course that isn't specifically about Perl > or some specialty that is already well entrenched with Perl.
I wish to clerify a comment about WPI's policy on Perl. My previous statment was from the NON-academic side of WPI. So the school's servers do no accept PHP. But the courses at WPI accept just about all languages. Courses are taught non-language specific. but seeing as how PHP is no longer supported on our servers, students can no longer run tests on our servers unless they use an acceptable programming language. Perl is becoming more common among our students for this very reason. --Alex _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
