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Max Antonucci

Another point about why your first programming language shouldn't be such a paralyzing choice: once you learn one language, all the basics and principles will carry over to the next. The first language I really learned was JavaScript. When I started learning Ruby at least half of that knowledge (variables, functions, conditionals) carried over, and the only really big change was learning classes and the object-oriented thinking.

So basically it's a similar point of not learning a specific language, it's learning programming as a whole. Once you do that, picking up specific languages and frameworks as you need them is simply part of your daily routine.