[getdavidhiggins]

Yeah but programming languages are an abstraction layer on top of already existing architectures which are not going away any time soon. X86, ARM, etc. So as long as code can talk to low level hardware and get executed, it doesn't really matter what you language you're using.

I can understand the need to have others pick up from where you left off, but that's introducing politics into programming, and more oft than not, it confuses what you're trying to achieve (which is converting some form of input to output I hope)

As a first port of call, it would be preferable to know one low level language like C, and a scripting / CRUD language like PHP/JS, as a lot of application development now is web based. Bonus points for learning ASM as that's as low level as we can get. (Unless you work in an Intel chip facility and are not allowed tell people what you're working on).