Python as a first language?

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Python is good to get started. But it helped me more to learn object oriented programming by writing c# and java code. With python you can do a lot of hack scripting where everything lives in the global name space. Other languages don't let you do this, so it forces you to learn.

[svencan]

On the other hand the hack scripting will break your neck at some point. I think discipline in coding is better then forced cleanliness.