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@Felthry neat!

if you're ever interested in learning haskell, I'm always happy to help if you get stuck!

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@Felthry I'd much prefer to teach people haskell! I just say lisp because I've had some really negative reactions (mostly from people who don't use haskell) when I've said "haskell is a good first language"

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@Felthry the thing that makes lisp relatively easy to learn - once you understand a function, everything builds on that. Unlike a procedural language, where you have to learn instructions and loops and functions and ...

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@Felthry I'm one of the weirdos who wants people to start with lisp...

I think ruby is easier to get the hang of than python, and gives you a few more options.

although tbh, I'd prefer people learnt C as a first language than Java

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@Felthry I don't enjoy python at all, but I agree that it's an ok language to start with - it's what I started with, sort of

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C is a very difficult and cumbersome language and absolutely should not be taught to beginning programmers.

It's difficulty makes people scared to try other languages, unless they're very similar to C

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