“Five million, bitches”
—my new reply every time someone mentions Ruby

A friend of mine is learning to program, and how to learn a programming language came up.

There is a lot of people who are non-programmers or have taken programming classes and not yet learned to program. When I was a kid, those languages were BASIC, Logo, and Karel the Robot, now they are things like C#, Java, and Ruby. Still the same problem of “what programming language to start” rears its ugly head.

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