hello,

I got into learning Perl because some people on IRC said so. at first I wasn’t interested in Perl because I already know Python and Python can almost do anything Perl can. I still gave it a try to kinda have some experience learning new language. I am on chapter 3 right now and would make another post about my progress.

https://blob.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/3145_Chap03.pdf

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    I won’t say “better” but Perl 6 is … interesting. It’s not clear what version you’re using.

    I suggest Haskell as your next language instead of Perl, since it will change how you think. https://learnyouahaskell.com is a good place to start.

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      When people say perl, they normally mean Perl 5. Perl 6 is now called Raku and is considered a different language.

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      I’ve been brainwashed into finding Elixir interesting due to how it handles parallelism and how good it’s supposed to be for live debugging. (According to ~3 talks I found on youtube)

      Edit: Syntax error

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        Also a good choice. I’ve never used Elixir but have used Erlang. Elixir is just Erlang with different surface syntax, pretty much. https://learnyousomeerlang.com is a good way to start with Erlang.