27 May
2016
27 May
'16
12:42 p.m.
And BASIC is great, but as soon as the kid grasps the
concepts, move him to
Perl or Python ASAP. Basic -> Perl is very easy, heck you can even use line
numbers if you want..
I don't claim to be Larry Wall himself (having had lunch with him a number of
times, he has too many dietary restrictions), but this is news to me. How do
you figure?
% cat > perl.test
print "hello\n";
% perl perl.test
hello
% cat > perl.test
10 print"hello\n";
% perl perl.test
syntax error at perl.test line 1, near "10 print"
Execution of perl.test aborted due to compilation errors.
% cat > perl.test
10: print"hello\n";
% perl perl.test
syntax error at perl.test line 1, near "10:"
Execution of perl.test aborted due to compilation errors.
% perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for aix-thread-multi
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