Your first programming language constrains how you think, I was deeply wedded to the 'GOTO' concept and could not understand how a program could work

Your first programming language constrains how you think, I was deeply wedded to the 'GOTO' concept and could not understand how a program could work without line numbers. BASIC took me a long way off the object-oriented paradigm! Maybe! This wasn't the case for me. I'm no genius programmer, but going from BASIC to Pascal was very, very natural for me and it was a welcome change because even as a high schooler it was obvious that BASIC programs quickly became unmanageable. Recently though I have struggled a bit in my brief encounters with functional languages, though, thanks to so many years of OO. But I got the sense that if I spent some time with it, I'd get it.