# Elixir for teaching programming

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**Tags:** general-programming\
**Created:** [June 30, 2020, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-for-teaching-programming/32740 "2020-06-30T08:30:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-for-teaching-programming/32740/10 "2020-06-30T11:38:53Z")

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Thank you @dimitarvp I have the very same feeling about it. Learning to program with the functional paradigm teaches a sane mental discipline and you can then build on new paradigms applying solid reasoning processes that make cleaner and safer code! I will search for that article, thank you for pointing me to it.

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