>>>>>I think you're best off going with something more manistream rather than niche. That means your choices today are (IMO):
>>>>>
>>>>>.Net, Java, PHP, Ruby
>>>>
>>>>Strtran(yourselection, "Ruby", "Python")
>>>
>>>Pfft. I always thought a group of Python users travelling overseas to a conference, was "snakes on a plane" :)
>>
>>Everybody knows that *real* programmers use FORTRAN for *everything"
>
>You mean to say that QBasic is dead? Or Turbo Pascal?

Speaking of Turbo Pascal... I did find it amusing that many of the people who claimed Pascal (and especially Turbo Pascal) was a dead language were the same folks who were very enthusiastic about Delphi and Kylix...

And on topic of QBasic... ever try out QB64 ( http://www.qb64.net/ ) ?