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Discussion on: What Programming Language to Learn First 🎓

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Alexander B.K.

If Pascal were still alive....
It was once the best one for introducing programming language.

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Youssef-mic

It looks like Python. I have never tried it!

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Alexander B.K.

I dislike the use of indentation for code block in Python. It is one of the reasons that hinder me to continue on learning it. The other one is people use reptile for the mascot/logo for the language. Guido von Rossum said that the name of Python he picked was inspired by a circus figure called Monty Python; it had nothing to do with any kind of reptiles. I would like to see the logo be replaced by that circus figure.

Pascal uses begin....end statement for that purpose, which is also used in SQL. From Pascal, it wouldn't be too hard to proceed to C/C++ or Java/C#.