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Re:Python is now the most popular introductory language at t... by eru on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @01:11AM (#8003087)
The only thing going for Emacs Lisp is its killer application named Emacs.

As a compromise, you might want to start people on edwin (https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-sc...) instead, if you want to teach them programming. But that's probably even less useful in practice.

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