How long to learn a programming language?

<p>Thanks everyone for your responses. I feel much more confident now.</p>

<p>Pinata, I am interested in technology innovation and scientific computing, although I can’t say right now exactly where my career is going to go. I have researched job postings in those areas and those are some of the languages that recurringly pop up on the required skills section (although obviously not always at the same time).</p>

<p>It is sort of annoying because one job posting will ask for C#, and then a seemingly similar job requires C++, and then another job will require C. I was getting worried cause I was thinking: How the hell am I supposed to learn all these different languages in order to be competitive and have options in the job market?</p>

<p>Pinata, SAS is a statistics data analysis software program, and I am planning on majoring in statistics (minor in CS). There is an entire career field for SAS programmers.</p>