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by anondon 3476 days ago
Why Haskell, the kid should have started with Lisp.
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flexie 3476 days ago
Why lisp? Kid should have learned assembly, or better yet; pure math. Now he is corrupted already.
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leke 3476 days ago
Why assembly? Give the kid a magnetic needle and he'll soon learn to flip his own bits.
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notfoss 3476 days ago
Give the kid Emacs, the language doesn't matter :P
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smnplk 3476 days ago
Why lisp ? Because you want to give him the best possible tool for computing and ruin his (possible) future career, where he will be forced to work with people that like java and/or javascript.

(Downvote me all you want... :P )

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kazinator 3476 days ago
This "kid" here started Lisp at around 29. Some 18 years after starting programming, and well into a C++-based career. You can come around late.
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