python is probably a bad choice due to the white space absolutism.<p>compiled languages may be not fun since you have more delays than the sighted.<p>what did old school phreaks use when learning to program? (i was late the the game in the late 90s, and people always assumed i was older except when it was a context they'd pay me fairly for my intellect -- then it's nothing but precarious, low paying nonprofits or piecemeal consulting designed to keep me in their orbit)<p>there is a library for the blind in 412, but they also block tor so i have to hope what pops up in duckduckgo is accurate:<p><a href="https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion/?q=blind+library+412" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswz...</a><p>>Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
>412-687-2440
>Toll Free Phone Number: 1-800-242-0586<p>if they give you shit say that it's greg and you're using your one phone call, they'll help you if you don't start asking a bunch of kinsey crap, if they don't suffer a narcicistic meltdown from having to do more than show someone the braile forms for welfare.<p>(i have to be careful not to hammer resources intended for the visually handicapped when using tor -- my no javascript lifestyle means i often seek out things designed for a screen reader, and i've seen them get overwhelmed in ways i haven't seen since the 2000s)<p>in general, interpreted languages are easier to keep a mental model of, because they have been iterated on to the point you can write out code that looks like psudocode, it's why i like python<p>the hackers who trained me were big into perl, which has a lot of issues but the whole there's over 9000 ways to do things -- there's a big library of existing perl code, and since there's more than one way to do things and those people fucking love one liners you'll spend less time dealing with "whitespace" which, as a blind person, i'm gonna guess is a very hard thing to grok, harder than public key encryption, recursion, or the idea that we don't need john taylor gatto to tell us what hellen keller got up to.