<html><head><base href="x-msg://1196/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">David:<div><br><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I can't<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>count the number of times I've been asked, "What is the best programming language? Which one should I learn first?"<br><br>Learn them all, but start with Python, because it's easy, fun, and highly capable out-of-the box.<br></span></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>And one of few where indentation matters. :)</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span>Next, if you want to get further away from the OS, go Java. If you want to get closer to the OS, go bash.<br></span></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>I think Java or C, bash isn't a programming language and is further from the OS than Java. ( even taking into account the JVM )</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span id="1db0e1d5-cb88-49a4-8e2f-e90f3b6109a8">And enough JavaScript and perl to get by on.<br></span></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>I would have to say the JavaScript is an absolute must unless that have no desire to write Internet related code. So many technologies today are making use of javascript ( node.js, mongodb, html5, etc ) that anyone not learning JavaScript today is doing themselves a huge disservice.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Raymond</div></div></div></body></html>