Beginner's Language?

[raj]

>I take it this writer is not very good with Perl because he refuses to let
>go of his more ancient prejudices. However, the assertation comes out
>absurd. There is no reason to keep Perl away from children just because Raj
>doesn't like it.

As Larry Wall says, Perl is a Swiss Army chainsaw ie : it can do
almost anything but it is inelegant  and just a trace clunky.

Sure it gets the job done but if I was teaching kids an all purpose
scripting language, I would rather teach them Ruby or Python.