[rescue] flamewar question: Perl

[Ken Hansen]

BASIC, Pascal, Pilot, Forth, FORTRAN, C, COBOL, 370 Assembler, Perl, Java, PHP
- that's my progression.

I tried C++ between 370 Assembler nad Perl, and did not like it one bit...

FORTRAN was a school requirement, COBOL/370 Assembler was a Job Requirement,
the rest was by choice...

Introductary courses at MIT are not the same as intro courses at the local
community college, remember. How many folks arrive at MIT and *never*
programmed computers? Anything counts, Logo, BASIC, C, Pilot (!), etc...

Ken

Greg wrote:

>
> My $0.02... if you're wanting to be a programmer, learn Scheme first (I sure
> wish I had, instead I studied Scheme on my own after school) and, once
> you've learned that, move onto other systems-level programming languages
> (C, C++, Java, etc) where you can apply that knowledge.  There's probably a
> reason MIT uses (used?) Scheme as its introductory programming language.