From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T00:28:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as First Language

Gene Tani wrote:
> Perl has gotten a bad rap, well-written perl is pretty easy to follow.
> Also perl's kind of hard to avoid, in certain circles, lots of times i
> start somethign by reading CPAN modules, lots of OReilly books have
> sample code in perl, etc. so at least being able to read perl code is
> helpful

Yes, but this thread is about "first language".  I don't know how Perl's
OO has changed since Perl 5 but then it was horrible.  Certainly nothing
I'd recommend for learning OO - I'd definitely choose even C++ and of
course Java / C# over Perl for OO.

Kind regards

    robert