Actually the author kind of made the distinction that he believes your first language should be so an so, so it becomes the 'base thinking platform' (so to spea

Actually the author kind of made the distinction that he believes your first language should be so an so, so it becomes the 'base thinking platform' (so to speak) in which a programmer develops code in his mind. I agree with you though, you can mostly think (in real life and in programming) in terms of languages you're already fluent in; however being introduced to a new concept can give way to new ways of thinking that can probably be expressed in every language, albeit poorly in some.