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$\begingroup$ Welcome to the site! What a great story--it sounds like Mathematica appeared in just the right place at the right time for you. In the interests of making the advice more appropriate to the modern day than the 1970s, though, I wonder if Pascal and Dartmouth BASIC ought to be replaced by Ruby and Python? Even though my first language was BASIC, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone today. Fortunately, there are far better languages available now, from which one can learn much more, far more quickly, and without developing bad habits. $\endgroup$

Oleksandr R.
– Oleksandr R.

2013-05-30 22:33:05 +00:00
Commented May 30, 2013 at 22:33
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$\begingroup$ Tks, I was fortunate. Mathematica was very helpful in so many ways. I dare say at the very least Python with which I've spent some time would be better. I don't know much about Ruby. $\endgroup$

jcm
– jcm

2013-05-31 00:57:24 +00:00
Commented May 31, 2013 at 0:57

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