Hi everybody!

I am interested in learning the basics of programming in general, and I am looking for a good first language. I am very impressed by perl's abilities in formatting strings, something which is very difficult in C. Does perl not teach something necessary about general programming? I am not looking to learn OOP or functional programming specifically, just to get the basics down. I can then adapt these basics to other languages. So, has anyone learnt perl as their first language? Why would one recommend against it? I want to hear your opinions. Thank you for reading all this!

My thanks!

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