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Absolutely.

First, learn assembly. Pick a machine architecture — it's not that important. For extra credit, pick multiple machine architectures and do something in each.

Then learn Lisp.




Then learn Forth.

And Morse code.

You'll need Haskell for dat Damas-Milner sexiness.

Wait wait, we need to pile on some Ruby and JavaScript, you don't want to be some sort of weirdo that can't make a web app do you?

Hrrrrm. Yep, need some APL. With Unicode.

That'll really hammer in the concatenative into your brain.




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