C and C++ are always a good languages to learn. You can code from the lowest to the highest levels, procedurally or OO. People starting out with a garbage-collected language would find it harder to understand memory management or lower level optimizations. Also, as a programmer, C and C++ will provide gainful employment for the next few decades at least. They are unlikely to really be replaced by anything else for their versatility.
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C and C++ are always a good languages to learn. You can code from the lowest to the highest levels, procedurally or OO. People starting out with a garbage-collected language would find it harder to understand memory management or lower level optimizations. Also, as a programmer, C and C++ will provide gainful employment for the next few decades at least. They are unlikely to really be replaced by anything else for their versatility.