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Slight dyslexia caused me to basically skip the C/C++/Java cycle of programming languages. I was great at assembly, basic, and FORTH; then not so much for 15 years. Then I found Python and became a ninja again. Now, with the right modern IDE and tweaked syntax highlighting and hinting, I can handle C# and Javascript as well.

LISP, not so much.

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I'm dyslexic and I write Perl everyday. It's no different to c/javascript/java. Except it's easy, and has the cpan

I'm also Dyslexic and I've also found Python is great. I think the large amount of intuitively named built-in functions really helps. Funnily I've also found syntactical whitespace to be very helpful, having curly brackets everywhere makes everything harder for me to read.

> having curly brackets everywhere makes everything harder for me to read.

What really kills me are nested parenthesis. I think I'm just deficient compared to most capable programmers in the ability to see how they pair up, especially in plain monochrome text.

In addition to indentation instead of curly braces, Python uses way less parens, for instance in if and for statements.

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