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Re:What programming language should I start with? by portLAN on Monday August 20, 2007 @10:20PM (#44595)
If you want to get stuff done, Python.

If you want to understand how the computer works, Assembly.

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Re:What programming language should I start with? by Zak on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @09:46AM (#44775)
And if you want to understand how computation works, Scheme.
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