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Re:The self-hating web developer by EugeneOZ on Monday July 20, 2015 @05:02AM (#9914782)
Advice to start learning programming from Haskell or Lisp or C++ is arrogance.
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Re:The self-hating web developer by codygman on Monday July 20, 2015 @12:31PM (#9917150)
How so? I'd appreciate you expanding on it, as well as responding to the existence of these:

Teaching Haskell to a 10 year old[0]

Realm of Racket[1]

Land of lisp[2]

0: https://superginbaby.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/teaching-haske...

1: http://realmofracket.com/

2: http://landoflisp.com/

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Re:The self-hating web developer by thomasahle on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @07:08PM (#9926537)
I know Haskell is the introductory programming language of choice at many British universities like Oxford and Cambridge. In the US C, C++ and Scheme (functional) are all in the top 6 most common ( http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-the... ) so I don't see at all why those shouldn't be good choices.
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Re:The self-hating web developer by warkid on Monday July 20, 2015 @07:35AM (#9915285)
Pefectly fine I one takes full responsibility for own advice.
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