Which Language first?

[Master of Reality]

This is a classic question but; which language should i learn first? I know HTML, it took me a few hours to learn it a couple years ago. I was thinking C++ or perl, of course i will eventually try to learn as many as possible.

[voidmain]

Perl would be an in-between step from HTML to C++. And if you learned Perl, you could fix your CGI scripts.  

[TheLizardKing]

If you want to go the way of the web, go with PHP.  Its quite simple and although perl came first, it will greatly help you to understand it.  Perl was always more complicated then PHP in my humble opinion.

 http://www.php.net

[KernelPanic]

Depends what you are doing really. Perl has fairly short code and is very good at what it does, but C++ is very powerful and versatile and not all that difficult. C++ also gives you the opportunity to expand you skils to larger projects and it is OOP.

[TheLizardKing]

For some reason I found C++ to be quite difficult, much of which was due to the fact I use a lot of web languages so I couldn't quite grasp all of their concepts but thats just me of course.  Oh and yes, it is 5:30am here, sleep is for the weak!

[runkpock]

PHP = Best Web Programming lang
Objective C/Ansi C/C++ = local apps

keep in mind that (Objective C >= C && C > C++ && Objective C > C++)

perl might be cool but cpan is just evil.
python is underrated and easy.

[Master of Reality]

i want to learn python too. I heard it is cool

[TheQuirk]

http://tuxedo.org/~esr/intercal/
hehehe....          :rolleyes:

[NESnerd]

Currently the only kind of language I know is Macromedia's Actionscript. (Based on ECMAscript) It's useful though. I don't do a lot of the coding in Flash as much, but it really helped me understand a lot of the concepts in almost all programming languages. (If statements, loops, arrays, stuff like that.)

[Kintaro]

If you learn a language dont learn QBasic it gives you many dirty habbits that will make other programming Languages very difficult to learn. I know it and have incorperated its Style with C++.

I prefer C++ because it is Object Orientated, And everything falls togeather, i just need to learn more functions to do things with it that i know with other languges.

Anyway I know:

QBasic (I have been writing shitty apps in this since i was around abouts 8 or 9)
Visual Basic (Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggh)
PowerBasic (nice) www.powerbasic.com
YaBasic (Comes on PS2 so i learned it)
C++ (From C++ dor Dummies)
HTML (From writing things in Mozilla Composer and then looking at the HTML it produced)
.BAT / .CMD (Windoze Command prompt)
I want to learn PHP or Perl next anyway, i basicly got into computers when i was about 6 or 7 my dad got an XT (Old then, old now) anyway by the first week i had tought myself how to use a HEX editor and to read hex and stuff like that!

[voidmain]

I take it back.  You should learn "CLIST" and "REXX" before any other language.  

[Calum]

German, i say. good solid language, that.

[choasforages]

actally go shell out the $150 needed to buy a TI89. you can program in c for it, in tibasic. and in assmebly, youll need a ti link cable and to download the assembler and the compiler. but comenoe, it comes with a book that teaches you how to use all the ti basic functions and to write your own. it even comes with tools to build a graphical app. if only more programers would learn on those such embeded machines, we wouldn't have this damned bloatware problem i can write tight apps with hooks for assembler routines in a small amount of space, it kinda teachs you to think about the smallest and cleanest and easyest way and the fastest way to do things. and i think that ti should rename the langague, i have never seen a version of basic with such advanced looping and such advanced looping. and this only coun'ts on TI89/TI92 machines, all the other one's basic isn't that good sorry for the rant

[choasforages]

and if you don't like that idea, you could always buy a macintosh and learn objective-c/*wish i could, i gotta go buy some NeXT books*/

[ravuya]

I believe there are objective-c compilers for linux. Part of GNU GCC.

You should definitely learn C++. It's the industry standard, and (unlike most) it actually works. Versatile, fast and supported heavily. If you learn in-depth a 'soft' language like any kind of Basic or Pascal, the bad habits you pick up there will render any future experiments in more powerful languages useless.