IMO, C in a unix context is an excellent first language. It is useful in many contexts to learn to look for all the compiler warnings available :). Once you f

IMO, C in a unix context is an excellent first language. It is useful in many contexts to learn to look for all the compiler warnings available :). Once you find them I don't think it is particularly hard. I agree about assembler, although I think just learning system calls and C is a good start. "See MIPS Run" is a great way to learn assembler IMO. I first learned Pascal and was very relieved to move to C. I don't think such limited languages are good for much of anything. They just frustrate users. I don't know Python but from what I know of it it seems like it would be a fine first language too. Anything else I know of seems like it has significantly wose issues than C IMO.