Well, I didn't have a whole lot of choice. I learned Basic and fortran in school, then learned COBOL for biz then learned C for curiosity and work.
C++ didn't really exist yet.
42 posted on 03/05/2016 1:54:12 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica
(How can God bless a country that's BUTCHERED 53 million babies?? Almost as many as ALL killed inWWII)
I am commenting from experience as well. I started out in procedural languages, but moved to OO. I had a lot of painful unlearning to do compared to if I had just started in an object oriented language.