I agree. I think this is good advice in general. I suggest one looks at the standard library and ask for people's opinion on well written libraries to pick the

I agree. I think this is good advice in general. I suggest one looks at the standard library and ask for people's opinion on well written libraries to pick the style, idioms, limitations and tricks of a language (and even compiler at points depending on what you do -- representations of built-in data structures are enlightening in general).