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If you have the time and you're feeling intellectually curious, start with Scheme. She's old and academic but has a timeless quality and beauty...

I don't recommend starting with C++ —though it's very much worth learning, I'd start with something like C# or a scripting language. C++ gets...

Generally the problem languages have isn't that they're too big. It's that some of them make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot with. The main...

I'll second the suggestion of either Go or Python. Both languages have a massive standard library containing libs you'd have to search for in a...