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I am a political analyst. In the mid-1980s I dabbled in Apple Basic for fun, but I also wrote a small business accounting program in dBase II. But life happened. So now I am trying to learn programming for some ML and NLP so that programs can start to analyze news text and speeches. I am starting to familiarize myself again with the math (vectors, kmeans), but I am also interested in the debates on object oriented and functional programming. I did work in procedural languages, so getting a conceptual grip on the new language paradigms means some adjustment (but intellectually interesting). I find Go and Julia interesting just as languages, but I guess I will have to go the route of Python.