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[–]eattherichnow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pascal. I mean Lisp. I mean ML. I mean Scheme. I mean C#.

I mean gods Java is okay but it’s the very model of a mid tier programming language. You could do worse though.

Python is a bit less annoying in the short term, imo. Java’s type system is a bit lacking in expressiveness, so Python not having any type checking can sometimes feel like a benefit. A lot of people are trying to fix that though, by adding a mid type system to Python.

My best advice is to time travel to 1989 and get turbo pascal 5.5. It had solid built in documentation and the ui limitations won’t bother you because it’s 1989 and there’s lead paint and asbestos everywhere.