I know that people are being pretty supportive in this thread, but two threads over are people telling a guy not to program in BASIC on Mac OS X because languages that noone has ever even heard of are superior.

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I suggested four languages as alternatives for Mac OS X programming in one of those threads, two of which are actually included with OS X and supported by Apple as ways to build Cocoa apps; one that is used as a scripting language in little-used applications by unknown software developers such World of Warcraft and Adobe Lightroom and the last (Common Lisp) is taught in a lot of computer science courses.

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