Sure, but in university that can be a useful exercise, whatever the language. There are many commonalities in just about every language. Learning your first lan

Sure, but in university that can be a useful exercise, whatever the language. There are many commonalities in just about every language. Learning your first language is hard, you’re second is freeing. At least personally I’ve found that the more languages I study, the easier it gets to pick up a new one, specifically because of the commonalities. Sure, Haskell and Ruby are really different, but when you try to pick up Elixir you’ve got a lot of common ground.