Yes, there was a healthy dose of facetiousness in my comment ;-) That said, there is definitely something to be said for learning a lower-level language fairly

Yes, there was a healthy dose of facetiousness in my comment ;-) That said, there is definitely something to be said for learning a lower-level language fairly early on I think. It's much easier to go from worrying about pointers vs values, manual memory management etc to not having to think about them than it is the other way round.