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I had a beautiful beginning with a lisp like programming language when I was 8 or something. Every other languages have been disappointments until I found Clojure a few years ago. I hope you will get it some day.

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And I hope you will learn some empathy some day and understand the perspective of others. We all have some growing to do, it seems.

The only way I was able to grok programming was through Racket. I owe my confidence and understanding to Gregor Kizcales’ How to Code, which makes clear to this art student what a dozen other language tutorials in a dozen other languages could not. I deeply love Racket and give thanks to its makers.

Great! I'm glad you found a path to computing, that is truly wonderful! And I'm not surprised that this approach worked so well for someone.

Now, let's make sure we're finding ways that can generalize. It's an important problem in the world today.

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