About programming, a general question

[Doug Robinson]

Hmmm
    Lots of good, well intentioned, advice but...

They have failed to explain a simple, well known, fact.

Different people, for various reasons, rate the various computer
languages very differently.  I.E. Different people often prefer
different languages. No surprise; right?

Well this well known fact is largely ignored well having the discussion
"which language is best for what".

E.G. I even know people who LOVE and admire Perl (He fired me after a
few weeks). For him perl is concise yet flexible. To me it is a string 
if random operators.
There is no accounting for taste!

You are going to have to discover for yourself which style or type of 
language
you prefer.

Looking back, I would base my decision about a first language on these 
points:

Which one is simplest.
Which has the best tutorial.
Which one has the best manual.
Which one is known by a friend who would help me.
Which language has the best instructors, if you are going to have one.

Do not expect that the language you start out with is the only one for 
you. It
could take a while to settle on a final choice; then a new one will come 
along and
you have to start over again.

I loved it while I was still doing it. Oh - Fortran II was easy to forget!

good luck.
dkr