[marvel_boy]

I don't know the correct answer but I fully agree with the autor: "The wrong answer to this question is learn both. You’re going to have a hard time simultaneously learning two programming languages with different syntax. You’re going to feel overwhelmed and chances are, you’re going to throw in the towel very soon."

So true.

[theVirginian]

I would qualify that and say "learn both but not at the same time." I found that it was only after I started learning my second programming language that I really started to appreciate many aspects of programming and understand which concepts are specific to languages and which others apply to programming in a broader sense.