Python is a nice language because of the everything and the kitchen sink approach to the built-in libraries. It also has a clean look because of the significant

Python is a nice language because of the everything and the kitchen sink approach to the built-in libraries. It also has a clean look because of the significant whitespace. Ruby is another nice language. It seems to be a bit more esoteric as far as some of the more advanced language features but for the beginner the language lets you accomplish it in more than one way. C is a fine language too but you will spend your time working on memory protection instead of getting things accomplished fast. It is more useful on memory constrained systems. Every language is useful in a different way and each have a domain or two in which they excel at. The real takeaway is that the shift from knowing one language to another is fairly easy. The real trick is knowing the idioms of the particular language and how to use them. http://www.pythonchallenge.com http://www.pythonchallenge.com or http://rubyquiz.com/ http://rubyquiz.com/