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Comment on Ruby vs. JavaScript as a first programming language

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A new programmer could learn both at the same time because mostly what a new programmer is learning is programming not a language. Javascript and Ruby are more like Excel and Powerpoint than English and Italian. Ruby and Javascript are software.

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