The vast number of modern languages are "C-like." If you learn C/C++, learn deconstructive programming, and learn RegEx, languages and libraries are just different permutations of the same. Perl comes in an afternoon. PHP is easy. Visual whatever is trivial. Java is more about the libraries than the language itself.
RegEx (Regular Expressions) is too often neglected in the modern teaching of software development and it is a hugely powerful tool. I wouldn't be without them.
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