[ianamartin]

To be clear, I am not suggesting that the resulting code will be good. But it tends to be more basic and not rely on weird tricks that deeper knowledge of the language will allow you to do.

My larger point is that the first attempt to solve any problem in code is going to suck, so you might as well suck in a different language that won't ever have a chance of being deployed into prod. You learn some things, you get some exp with a new language, and a better frame of mind for solving the problem in a better way.