Dangerous learning multiple languages at the same time?

It's not like martial arts, where learning two very different styles at the same time can confuse muscle memory and prevent progress.

By dividing your attention, you are dividing your progress. That's not ideal, but it's not the end of the world either, if you're in this for the long haul.

I would say that JavaScript is a great one to learn not only for the obvious functionality and ubiquity, but also because it has C-style syntax. In fact, if you do enough PHP and web work, you will soon need JavaScript.

JavaScript has developed tremendously in the last several years and is a fact of life now. Also, C-style 'curly brace' syntax is widely used and good to understand. With that you get some hooks upon which you might hang, say, C# or Java. And so many others.

As for how many languages I know...

I'm sure I've known at least a dozen things that could qualify as languages. Right now I feel pretty strong in C#, JavaScript, HTML, SQL/TSQL, XML, VB.NET, R, and probably a few others. Some of those are barely languages, but what do you think those L's stand for? :)

I will tell you this: learn as many languages as you can. Not necessarily all at once and not necessarily deeply, but indulge and cultivate that curiosity (it's a core developer attribute!), because more languages == more perspective.

Go for it.

You'll occasionally get the syntax mixed up but it won't matter.

It'll broaden your linguistic horizons. Give you better ways to solve problems.

What possiblemente a pu aller wrong with dieses Situationen?