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Re:Ask HN: What's a good programming language to start with? by joechung on Thursday August 13, 2009 @06:33AM (#760455)
Python is a real programming language. Keep at it!

If you want to learn an advanced programming language, try Haskell, ML (F#), or Lisp (Scheme).

C is a good programming language to learn. It can be quite unpleasant to debug C programs though.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good programming language to start with? by troels on Thursday August 13, 2009 @07:29AM (#760510)
> It can be quite unpleasant to debug C programs though.

Yes, but if you can do that, you can debug anything. Literally - Most high level languages are implemented in C, so debugging them eventually means debugging C code.

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