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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hello,

I got into learning Perl because some people on IRC said so. at first I wasn't interested in Perl because I already know Python and Python can almost do anything Perl can. I still gave it a try to kinda have some experience learning new language. I am on chapter 3 right now and would make another post about my progress.

https://blob.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/3145_Chap03.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

A bit too late. 20 years ago this would be great. (I started 12 years ago, used it for couple of hobby projects.)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For the language itself, maybe. But never discourage people from learning something new. He seems to be excited and has motivation. There are also lot of legacy code, which would never get ported or maintained if nobody learns the language anymore, only a few old people at that point (look what happens to COBOL).

[–] 404 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah, COBOL schools and boot camps have started to pop up

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