Your career goals and personal interests should guide your choice of a first programming language, not just what’s popular.

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Have I told you the story about Bill Gates and me in those early days of personal computing? To be clear: Bill Gates is older than I am. In 1975, as Bill was leaving Harvard to start Microsoft, I had ...