"first"

fun "first" language to learn.

I say first because I took C++ in highschool and enjoyed it, and I wanted to try common lisp but I'm not certain if its supposed to be a joke or not.

any help would be nice.

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Top down approach is "programming on paper" and is very distanced and abstracted from realities and limitations of real hardware, its just an academical exercise in CS. It does not teach good habits, its sort of inapplicable higher math research.