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		Jeff_Brown on March 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: The easiest programming language for teach... Lisp is shockingly easy for such a powerful system.

realsimplesynd on March 12, 2021 [–]

I really wish I started with lisp, the unity of the whole language teaches you that you’re not just telling a computer what to do, you’re making abstractions on top of the base language.

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