Oh, I forgot one point. Whatever language you end up choosing to learn first, for the love of all that is holy get your hands on an Open Source operating system. It will make your life, way, way easier and far more enjoyable. Pick up something like Redhat (other distros) it's dead simple to install and use, and if you want to keep you're existing OS installed, you can (although I'd recommend you ditch it, you'll never want it again :). Even if you're barely into programming, it's worth it.

If you need any help with this, just reply to this post. If you do decide to stick with a different proprietary operating system you can still use all the languages I've listed, but it won't be nearly as fun :). Anyways, best of luck, reply if you need any help :).

Oh, and since I'm going to get it anyways now... Vi sucks, Emacs Rocks! ;-P

In reply to Re: Re: The Gates of Perl are not newbie friendly. by Anonymous Monk
in thread The Gates of Perl are not newbie friendly. by Hielo

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