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by bikingbismuth 1608 days ago
I never got too far into C, but I took a course on assembly and learned Erlang and Golang to a decent proficiency. Erlang gave me an appreciation of loops and recursion, Golang made me more aware of types and error handling, and assembly just made me happy that I don’t have to write assembly. All this of this made me a significantly better Python programmer and made me appreciate what was going on under the covers a bit more. I also find value in challenges like advent of code, because it gives me a chance to tinker with a language in new ways.