>>>>>>I think you're best off going with something more manistream rather than niche. That means your choices today are (IMO):
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>>>>>>.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/ ) ?

So QBasic is NOT dead after all. Funny.