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started 4/1/2001; 2:08:04 PM - last post 4/1/2001; 2:08:04 PM
Ehud Lamm - Test Shows 99.99% of High School Seniors Can't Read Perl  blueArrow
4/1/2001; 2:08:04 PM (reads: 1440, responses: 0)
Test Shows 99.99% of High School Seniors Can't Read Perl
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San Francisco, CA - Recent results from standardized Perl Fluency Test showed that 99.99% of US high school seniors can't read Perl. This disturbing statistic shows that American students are painfully unprepared for life after graduation...

..."Teachers need to start with simple phrases like $RF=~tr/A-Z/a-z/; and work up from there. We really need to start teaching this in first grade if kids are ever going to understand this by high school."
Posted to fun by Ehud Lamm on 4/1/01; 2:08:32 PM