Best first programming language

[Chris Gehlker]

On May 19, 2009, at 5:12 AM, Dennis Kibbe wrote:

> 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.

Ruby.

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