xah talk show 2019-01-10: which programing language to learn? python or ruby or haskell?

[@Shachermacher]

great to see you putting video on routine, I rather watch this than some TED talk or something!

[@Simon-xi8tb]

For beginners, I would say Racket.

[@kepinpin5277]

seriously?

[@Simon-xi8tb]

@@kepinpin5277 Yepp, it is a great language for first time learners. Comes with a great IDE Dr. Racket. Checkout this free book www.htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/part_prologue.html

[@AggressiveMenace]

All Lisp-related languages are a great deal and not that hard as most people thinks, and they are also a nice path to functional programming ones, and that's amazing too.