The question of favorite programming language and different variations on that question has been asked dozens of times. This one is a little different. What I'm interested in is not what language you love (feel free to share that too) but was it the first language you learned or your 23rd?

I recently reflected on choosing the right tool for the job. In that post, I explained Perl is the language I first fell in love with, and it's still my go-to language. Perl was my first programming language. Kind of. I learned JavaScript first, but those were the days before Node, so I considered JavaScript more of a browser tool like HTML and CSS. Perl was the first language I learned that I could actually do stuff outside the browser with.

Is there something about your first language that always holds a special place in your heart? Or did it take you several languages before you found the one that clicked for you? Did you have a language that you fell in love with that was later replaced by another language you liked even better? Have you not found that language yet?