Quote Originally Posted by esposito View Post
If you are a newbie, for you any programming language is as good as any other.
Would you recommend something like Assembly, Lisp, or Brainfu©k to a newbie?

It is obvious that you start learning with the quickest and easiest tool at hand.
Why? Is there any other reason besides if you live in a trailor and you can only afford a used 80486 and all you can run is Pascal and Cobol?

I'm sorry but I simply can not wrap my head around those ideas.