All excellent points. But remember the original questioner already knew some python and some VB. C is probably an excellent choice for him, though personally

All excellent points. But remember the original questioner already knew some python and some VB. C is probably an excellent choice for him, though personally I use Python for the vast majority of my code. Of course, my work has morphed to be more system and database administration than programming lately so I may be biased by that.