Great idea! I always thought Perl in general was quite suited for show casing and learning with different styles and ways of solving problems. It's flexibility is a key element in that. Especially in CS, students need to learn that there is more then one way to do it and be able to compare those different ways. Perl 6 in that line a great asset.
w On 19/01/16 16:57, Tom Browder wrote: > Last year I mentioned a letter-to-the-editor in Communications of the > ACM which discussed the short-comings of Python as an introduction to > programming for computer science students. As a response to that > letter, I suggested that the dissatisfied professor consider Perl 6 as > it would meet his requirements. > > My casual look at the programming scene over the last decade seems to > show that Python is regularly chosen as the language for open source > projects and as a teaching language. The Perl community on > <perlmonks.org> seems adamant that there are few, if any, business > reasons for Perl 5 shops to use Perl 6, so the academic community may > be the best place to aim Perl 6 marketing for the growth of a Perl 6 > community among young people. > > I have seen lots of blogs and on-line articles comparing the two > languages, but I have not yet found one truly suitable for college and > high school academic marketing and curriculum development. The only > article on Perl 6 I have found in the ACM archives was a 2007 article > by Audrey Tang. Its citation and access page is found here: > > http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1190216.1190218 > > Note the ACM reports that the article has been cited two times in > other ACM articles, and has been downloaded a total of 524 times. > > I also searched the IEEE archives for Perl 6 and found nothing. > > Suggestion > ======== > > I suggest that a good move would be to produce a good, and current, > scholarly article, aiming to be published in a suitable professional > journal, with a detailed, objective comparison between Python and Perl > 6. I'm sure there are properly-qualified people in the Perl 6 > community that could do a very credible job, and it should be worth > support from the Perl Foundation. > > Audrey Tang's article (based on information on the citation page only) > doesn't seem to fit the specific comparison I think is needed, but the > article may be useful background for any new author. > > Of course there may already be such an article in academia, but > apparently not in the computer science education realm. > > Best regards, > > -Tom > -- GPG Key: https://u2m.nl/data/webmind.asc GPG Fingerprint: 0506976E 234653B4 A628EC33 E23D16EE FCF154AE XMPP webm...@puscii.nl: D79970A8 7EC43E29 186D86BA 590F20F6 4C7930B8 XMPP webm...@laglab.org: 11E91112 091881F7 53EF6108 63C48543 C74D035C u2m.nl (exp: 08/04/2016) SHA256: C2:40:67:22:25:52:29:AF:DF:50:4E:2A:6B:32:6D:BC:5B:1E:CA:7D:52:3B:4C:4A:21:5D:C8:E5:AE:7D:1A:09 Puscii (exp: 04/03/2016) SHA256: F9:C7:B1:B7:90:6B:17:BF:84:93:93:7C:0F:B4:FD:BE:E3:C0:71:9D:83:01:ED:3A:96:FE:FC:82:9D:30:51:C9
