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by ssijak 2918 days ago
My first language was Basic on Commodore64 at 6 years old. Second was Visual Basic with some HTML done in FrontPage. After that came high school where we had Assembler, C, C++, Prolog, Java, Pascal, and Delphi. At the college, there was more of the same + Javascript + a bit of Lisp + some obscure and specific ones like CLIPS. On my own, I worked with several others for example Python, C#, a bit of Elixir and Ruby and PHP and Kotlin and Objective C.

Point being made that first language is largely irrelevant if you are really interested in the craft you will eventually get exposed to many languages and paradigms and learn to choose what best suits the problem and in which you want to get the most expertise. It`s not like you would shoot yourself in the foot if you learn C first instead of Python or the other way around.