Furthermore, the first language you become comfortable with will influence the way you learn other languages in the future. This is true until you learn enoug

Furthermore, the first language you become comfortable with will influence the way you learn other languages in the future. This is true until you learn enough, then it's not true any more. I used to work with a guy who learned FoxPro (an old database program). Every problem we had on the team, he would look around and say, "Hey, you know what? We could solve this very easily if we only used FoxPro" Everybody is like that. We just don't see it. So the author is correct as far as he takes it. The difference is, once you've become exposed to bunch of languages and problem-solving paradigms, you start to see patterns. And once you see the patterns, the languages aren't that important anymore at least in the way you approach solutions. The coding itself may be more or less gnarly, but the way you go about fixing the problem is based on principles, not language constructs. This is like when you learn a word processor. The first time you use one, you begin thinking of all word processing problems through this one lens. But once you learn 3 or 4 word processors, it's all kind of the same. Programming is just like that, only it takes about ten times longer. I'd also note that no matter what tool or problem you have, if you keep refactoring and clarifying your code, you always end up in mostly the same spot -- some kind of DSL-ish place. That's true no matter what language you're using. So yeah, he's right. But not really. Instead of focusing on which language you start with, focus on broadening your programming experience. Got enough language zealots in the world. No need to make more.