cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19849935
Itâs also important to note that you might come out ahead in learning those abstract concepts using a harder language.
I agree that you will learn more abstract concepts with more low level languages, but they are often not necessary. See Scala, beautiful language, lotâs of fancy subtle computer science concepts, and a plummeting popularity since its main popularizer, Apache Spark, implemented a Python API.
Well. yes. it does strongly depend on what you intend to do with it.
Python is a great language thatâs very broadly used; thereâs a reason that Apache added the python API; after all. (and why Scala is plummeting.) I wouldnât even say Pascal was all that useful, to me. I think I âlearned itâ enough to get through the dumb book, and then went on to something else. C++ was more fun anyhow.
