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Try a Lisp. You'll be humbled. In my opinion, anything resembling C is easy stuff. Pointers, threads ... it's all pretty easy, really. Truly breaking out of that C mold is the differentiator though, in my opinion. Anybody can learn C, Python or Javascript.

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Lisp is a huge paradigm shift, but once you get that writing code in Lisp is basically just writing parse trees directly, it's not so scary.

If you don't already get recursion, though, you will struggle. Everyone struggles with recursion at first.

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