On Feb 27, 3:54 pm, BH <Benson....@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Interesting! It's interesting someone actually thinks that any typical
> school/university will teach Perl as a subject?
I've had five years of post-bat CS and SE, and have never been exposed
to Perl in a University environment, but I ~have~ been exposed to
COBOL, Scheme, Python, C, Java (lots), Microsoft languages (lots),
shell scripts, assembly, X languages (XPath, XSLT, etc.), Mate,
Erlang, and others I can't remember. No Perl, none at all.
OTOH, I've taught at a college and taught the Perl course, which was
taught as part of a state required curriculum. Yes, my state mandated
that students learn Perl, but the curriculum was 20 years old when I
taught, and that was five years ago, and it still IS the curriculum.
I find it ironic that self-respecting academics won't touch Perl with
a ten foot pole, yet teach it because of 20 year old state mandates.
Don't get me wrong ... Perl is perhaps the most useful technology
invented, but maybe that's why academics don't like it.
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