I disagree. It was talk like this that convinced me to learn a couple of other languages when I was a kid before jumping in to C++, and I regret not going strai

I disagree. It was talk like this that convinced me to learn a couple of other languages when I was a kid before jumping in to C++, and I regret not going straight for it. C++ is not difficult to learn, but once you have it down you'll have a better understanding and appreciation of all the higher level languages that abstract the hard stuff away for you but sometimes perform like crud.