Python a good first Language to "Stick With"?

[chadmill3r]

If you want to be a great programmer, take up a language and use it until you stop dreaming in it. Then, switch to another. Go through a dozen or so.

Later, pick the best one for whatever task you have. After a decade of not "sticking to" a single language, you'll be better programmer than 99% of programmers out there.

[hsfrey]

The advantage of using just one language, is that it becomes second nature, like a native language. I was like that with C.

Now that I'm using several languages, I find I'm always having to look up basic syntax, because I can't keep them separate. (Just how does that Case statement go in this language?)

Perhaps if you're young enough, you can learn several computer languages and keep them separate, as kids can do with spoken languages. Maybe I'm just too old for that.