I learned bash instead of python because my 8 year old brain saw all the parentheses and thought “ew no”…
Experienced me sees a language where parentheses are optional and I think “ew no”
I liked the OCaml website
I learned lolcode in college because we had to write a sorting algorithm in assembly and “any other programming language.”
I was trying to rank up in Codewars, and there was a 1kyu (hardest and worth the most points) kata only available in OCaml, so I learned it in order to solve.
I learned Go because I really liked the keyword go
This feels like me wanting to learn Hare because I like rabbits, which I bring up because someone left this reply for me and I think it applies to you too:
That is such a sweet reason! Whimsical decisions like this can be some of the best. Life demands a bit of whimsy every now and then.
Learned Python to try and hack into a porn site.