At the risk of starting a flame war I would say the best is C#. If you look
at both Tech Republic and CIO Magazine both have had articles in the last
four or five months that listed .Net in the top ten skill sets for the
current economy. Also as our office has been in the shutdown mode since
November I have been scanning over 20 different job boards since and
overwhelming there are more job posting for C# .Net Web programmers than any
other area.

If your goal is to get a job as a business programmer it seems that C# and
.Net will give you the best chance to get a job.

Just my observations.

David

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Subject: Best first programming language


I searched the archive but didn't find a previous discussion about this.

A friend who graduates from high school next week wants to take a summer
course in programming. His goal is to become a business applications
programmer.

He asked me what language he should start with. I'd guess the prgramming
landscape is changing with more services going into the cloud.

Joseph, Hans, Charles I'm sure you have opinoins and I welcome anyone elses.

My friend, Ian isn't on the list so I'll point him to gmane.org to follow
the discussion.

dennisk

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