> 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
>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.
Exactly. The wolf book would make an excellent text-book for a beginner's
guide to algorythms
Note "academic" is implying "Computer Science" not "Engineering" or "IT
Education" -- professors who publish research and hope their grad
students will grow up to be professors just like them.
The eclectic nature of Perl makes it
(a) not well suited to the purist CompSci academic style
Perl
Tom Metro said:
> A few years ago I hired an instructor to teach a group of junior
> developers OO programming.
Next time you're thinking of doing this, shoot me an email.
http://www.greglondon.com/iperl
>From zero-perl/zero-OO to basic OO-perl in about a hundred pages.
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
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