[Nottingham] Which programming language (RE: O'Reilly Books)

[Roger Light]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Martin Garton wrote:

> > Hate to say it on a forum like this one though but VB is always a good
> > place 
> > to learn programming.
> 
> Do you mean VB.NET or "old" VB?

A good point - VB6 was pretty easy but VB.NET looked much less so (I
never dabbled). Anyone learning VB6 now to develop new apps is a
complete loony of course.

So on a similar vein - what do people think is a good language to start
off with?

Cheers,

Roger