Maybe we were led into a false dichotomy by the title. If someone wants to learn programming for other reasons than as a mean to a goal - which will become more

Maybe we were led into a false dichotomy by the title. If someone wants to learn programming for other reasons than as a mean to a goal - which will become more and more rare because LLMs do that already - this person must not learn just one language but one per major paradigm : C (imperative/procedural), Smalltalk (OOP), Prolog (logic), SQL (declarative, although maybe there are better representatives), OCaml (functional, although one can go for Haskell or Lisp/Scheme), and Forth (concatenative, but also to take a look under the hood of interpreters/compilers/VMs).