Congrats! I am only twelve and I have no problems learning perl. My first Real programming language was javascript and I regret not learning perl sooner.I do however think javascript is a great language to start with because it is realatively simple but the concepts you learn from it can be use in the learning of other languages.In my opinion age does not matter, if you want to, you can learn anything at any age (provided you an read and speak :-) ).

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