I've dealt with C in college and nothing more, so for me It's just a bunch of macros on top of assembly. C++ was the language we used in OOP class, I know it's a beast of many faces, but we used it mostly like you'd approach using java. Python is very expressive but I think it's closer to C when compared to elixir because it lacks advanced pattern matching. I think the four main domains are procedural, object oriented, functional and visual (programming in excel for instance). Navigating those realms unlocks different ways of thinking and different mental structures. None is better than the other, they just lend themselves better to different classes of problems, and choosing the one that fits best your experience and the target domain will make it more likely to get in the zone when using these technologies.

I get synaesthesia in some languages (smalltalk, sclang, forth, lisp, occasionally perl) but not in any others. But I don't know if that has to do with the language or with the kind of projects I do in them, and I'd love to figure out a way to determine that. Maybe I should try writing a generic "not-in-domain" project in one of those and see.