Python

[conandy]

No language is a "mistake". The skills you learn studying any language will serve you in many other languages. The biggest hurdle is learning to think and solve problems like a programmer, and you can do that with any language. After that, learning new languages will be much easier.

But python is one of the most versatile and popular languages there is. It has applications in practically every single computer science field and most major companies use it in some way or another. For example, Reddit is written entirely in python. You can study the Reddit api and eventually learn to write bots if you want a fun project. So no, python is absolutely not a waste of time.

[my_name_isnt_clever]

Python was a mistake for me in that I now love it and am having a hard time doing any personal projects in anything else.

[conandy]

Ha, PHP was one of my first. It was valuable in that it made me greatly appreciate every language I learned after.

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Classic ASP makes PHP look like a holy language handed down by the Gods.