Re: [TCLUG:21269] Beginning - Language Perl or Python?

[<Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com>]

I learned to program in Perl, and it is by far my favorite
language - but I don't know if I would recommend it to start out.

Sure, there are some fantastic books (Camel book, Learning Perl),
but I've found that I'm somewhat spoiled on it, making it very
difficult for me to easily program in other languages.  Really powerful
things you can do in perl (like a hash of hashes) are much harder to
do in other languages.  I'd recommend learning Java first, so you know
a "real" programming language - and then move onto Perl.

Nick