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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • One way to introduce Perl into the educational space could be by joining the Connexions [cnx.org] initiative. I have just discovered it - but I've been thinking before about the fact that Open Source produces a lot of educational content - but does that in a way completely separate from the academic field of pedagogy.
  • I wonder what benefit would a student have in her studies knowing Perl?

    Is it only for the sake of broadening their knowledge?

    It certainly does not seem to be a key requirement in most of the openings out there.
    Some of the other real-world issues you mentioned seem to be much more important for someone looking for a job than Perl.

    Are there any immediate benefits for a student in knowing Perl?

    I am trying to think about this and the main thing I could come up is that with perl they could easily copy t

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    • When I was still going to school I didn't learn Perl until my senior (last) year, but I wish I had learned it sooner. Not all of our classes required that the solution to a problem be written in a particular language. After I learned Perl I had several projects I wrote for my Networking and Software Engineering and I finished much quicker than those students who used C++, Java or C#.

    • While the focuse in Perl is on the practical side - there are a few quite theoretically advanced things in it. Case in point - Roles in Moose are one of the very few implementations of a sematic described in a research article.
  • As a new system administrator and having used perl for the previous year in my job I took a class on Perl programming that my university offered. The other CS students taking the class were excellent programmers but lacked even basic common sense on how to program. Throughout their college career (this was a junior+ level class) they had been beaten into the mold of faster is better so when it came to the first homework assignment the teacher pulled me aside and asked if he could use my homework as an exam
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