Scripting vs. Curly Bracket Language

I've been doing a lot of reading lately and yet I am still stumped. In your own opinion, would you say that the best language to learn with is a scripting language or a curly brackets language?

People always say about how simple scripting languages are but at the same time I want to make sure I'm not making some shitty mistakes that'll bite me in the ass when it comes to creating more complex code. Int he same vein, I don't want to start way over my head and regret it later.

I'm not asking which language is best, just what language set I should choose from, whether you chose from that category to start learning or you wish you had.

JavaScript has all the good functional stuff from Lisp and free of "referential transparancy/purity/i-can't-modify-variables-or-i-burn-in-hell" bullshit, complete (@Java-speed) imperative composition.
I would say its a win/win scenario, but it lacks some low-level functions of C/asm level which Lisp does have.

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