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dusk
hey
In regards to brother deps threads on a <A HREF="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=59884">`perl book fund'</A> and his <A HREF="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=61064">follow-up</A>; I truly think it is an inspiration of a genius. I also emphasize that school donations for perl classes is an excellent idea. I currently attend high school, and the only options for learning programming are C\C++ and JAVA; I don't even think the instructors are at all familiar with perl.<P>
I think that school donations for Perl is a great idea. It would require:<P>
money for books; which are expensive, but no more expensive than the big JAVA book I drag around.<P>
qualified instructors to teach perl; I honestly would not want my java teacher to teach me a *real* language ;)<P>
Although most high school's in the US (and abroad) have enough computers, it'd be really cool to donate a few cheap computers explicitly for UNIX and perl (possibly some relics dug up on ebay)<P>
Now, I don't know how popular this would be to become mainstream, but I'm *very* excited about the idea, and, from the support deprecated is getting, I think others like the idea as well.