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Which group of programming languages to master?

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – austin.rbn wrote:holland01 wrote:Despite the fact that a higher level language is easier, it's practically shooting yourself in the foot. You'll get used to high level and the thought of moving on to a lower level, much more challenging language will just seem like overkill to you. Plus, learning a language the hard way and THEN learning a higher level language like Python will be much easier than the reverse.I think this strongly depends on how one learns the higher-level language. I found the transition from Python to C incredibly smooth and easy. However, I really dug into the mec (HowTos)

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