How to choose the right language
sid: Also dont forget that once you learn the language well, say you picked python, dont evanglise it as the best language onces you have fnished your first little app or program. Read about other languages also and just play around alittle. If you know one well you know where you can always run when there is a big project you want to do, but give others ago, you could be pleasnantly suprisedI know alot of poeple who picked up perl as their first language during uni and wont pickup anything else cause they are so deeply into it and say its the best language. It might be from their point of view which is fine but dont let the first language you learn be the only one you ever use also.Like the other guys said, if your a beginner pick one, hell pick python for the simple reason that google use it (so it must be good) get used to it and then try to compare with others once you get the swing of things.Like buying a guitar for the first time, you dont know which one is good cause you dont know what a good guitar is supposed to sounds like so you buy a fender or a les paul cause one of your idols use it !