To have an easier time with another language (which the first language’s valid syntax is a superset of) which it papers over the faults of. And usually it’s pretty thin paper.
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C and C++?
I learned Applesoft BASIC to draw a surprise Dickbutt.
If we're counting machine code, I learned 6502 ASM for faster division on NES, because it was half the CPU time on my first-person shooter. After many iterations pushing it down to mere hundreds of cycles, I slapped my forehead and implemented log tables in like 512 bytes and 45 cycles. It's negligible now. And supports constant fractional scaling. And has overflow / underflow saturation. Really, 6502 ASM is fantastic to fuck around in, even though the rest of the NES's hardware suuucks.
from googling I see wikipedia has a book for it: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/6502_Assembly
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