Of course it should! That's how I got started programming 17 years ago. I never would have started programming if the first thing was to find a language and pick it. I absolutely started programming because there was a language there.
(In this case, it's both javascript and c, on linux, and VBA on Windows. I use none of those today but that doesn't matter!)
(In this case, it's both javascript and c, on linux, and VBA on Windows. I use none of those today but that doesn't matter!)