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Depends on what language you know. My first language was FORTRAN (and matlab) and my way of thinking was severely handicapped by the language. My code would be a typical 5,000 line routine with GOTO statements, that worked, but only I knew how to navigate that mess.

After I learned C++, suddenly the non monolithic doors opened for me. I also think that people who write c++ write better code, you get to read better code and follow better practices. Python, ruby, go, rust, javascript all clicked very easily afterwards.

I still have one more hill to climb, functional programming.




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