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		portLAN on Aug 21, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What programming language should I start with? If you want to get stuff done, Python. If you want to understand how the computer works, Assembly.

Zak on Aug 21, 2007 [–]

And if you want to understand how computation works, Scheme.

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