SICP

Say, someone who has no prior experience with programming, and is at a rather 'young' age (Teen still) wants to get ahead of the game, and start up now, rather than later. Would one go about this by reading SICP? I've seen it linked so many times, I've only got to think it's a start.

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I admit I was ignorant of pythons GC

And no I didn't say that you can make do without a stack trace, I said that it was a myth that TCO and stack traces were incompatible (that is as a rule, not necessarily in a specific case)

If you claim that you don't want/need TCO, fine. For my purposes, I'd rather have it.

You have won. I have nothing more to say, except that it's been a while since I've had such a good conversation in this shithole.