[geeks] Introductory programming language?

[Lionel Peterson]

Perl is great as an additional programming language, but I have a hard time
imagining it as a first language...

What about COBOL? It was designed to enable non-computer scientists to create
programs to solve problems...

Lionel

On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:57 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net> wrote:

> Perl?  There's no reason why perfectly functional Perl code *has* to
> look like line noise.