qeef<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://babka.social/@serge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>serge</span></a></span> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Scheme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scheme</span></a> is awesome first language. I will tell you why.</p><p>(And my plan is to translate my book <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Nonprogrammer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nonprogrammer</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Neprogram%C3%A1tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neprogramátor</span></a> from my native (Czech) language to English in 2025, but you need to wait for that.)</p><p>Programming languages let you talk with the computer. In Scheme, a sentence starts with "(", then verb, i.e., *what* to do, then space-separated nouns, i.e., with *what* do that do, ending the sentence with ")".</p><p>Any other language with such an explanation?</p><p><a href="https://neprogramator.cz/neprogramator-zine-en.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">neprogramator.cz/neprogramator</span><span class="invisible">-zine-en.pdf</span></a></p>