The first language I learned was clisp and it was the only one I used for the first two years. It was awesome. It was a long learning curve, and I couldn't do

The first language I learned was clisp and it was the only one I used for the first two years. It was awesome. It was a long learning curve, and I couldn't do almost anything for a really long time, but I got to a point where I knew everything about this tiny universe and had a solid foundation to branch out from. With that I went on to learning java, python, js, and c, and became fascinated at how much faster things became as I used more state and therefore got closer to the hardware. For a while I was a little worried that I would only be able to use functional programming and would not be able to learn how to use state, but that was not the case.