I co-authored the somewhat-famous Games Pack 1 for the TRS-80. I grew up with 8080 and Z-80 programming for low-level and my first high-level languages were APL, BASIC, Pascal and Modula 2. All top-down modular. Then I designed a language called R-code, for robot control, and another language called LIM (Limited Instruction Model). It was clean, simple, readable, and easy to understand. I say use what you enjoy and don't worry about trendy things like OOP. All good wishes.
