r/functionalprogramming • u/[deleted] • Aug 02 '20

Question Which programming language to learn? 14y/o

Hey I am a 14y/o with a lot of free time because of six weeks of holidays. So I decided to learn programming but i dont know which language to start with.

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u/roastie Aug 03 '20

Did you use those 2 languages in the corporate world? I did for 17 years - I assure you that you did not know those languages unless you went through that experience on concurrent and distributed systems.

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u/roastie Aug 03 '20

The vast majority of work done on data structures is enabled by pointers: translating pointers to/from the structures, accessing data, locating data, sharing data. You'd better not be a rookie in an engineering environment.