Difficult to answer. If it can help, a small guide…
How to Determine Which Programming Language You’re Using:
The proliferation of modern programming languages which seem to have
stolen countless features from each other sometimes makes it difficult
to remember which language you’re using. This guide is offered as a
public service to help programmers in such dilemmas.
{C} You shoot yourself in the foot.
{Assembly} You crash the OS and overwrite the root
disk. The system administrator arrives and shoots you in the
foot. After a moment of contemplation, the administrator
shoots himself in the foot and then hops around the room
rabidly shooting at everyone in sight.
{C++} You accidentally create a dozen instances of
yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency
medical care is impossible since you can't tell which are
bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and
saying, "that's me, over there."
{Ada} If you are dumb enough to actually use this
language, the United States Department of Defense will kidnap
you, stand you up in front of a firing squad, and tell the
soldiers, "Shoot at his feet."
{Modula/2} After realizing that you can't actually
accomplish anything in the language, you shoot yourself in
the head.
{sh, csh,etc.} You can't remember the syntax for
anything, so you spend five hours reading man pages before
giving up. You then shoot the computer and switch to C.
{Smalltalk} You spend so much time playing with the
graphics and windowing system that your boss shoots you in
the foot, takes away your workstation, and makes you develop
in COBOL on a character terminal.
{APL} You hear a gunshot, and there's a hole in your
foot, but you don't remember enough linear algebra to
understand what the hell happened.
{FORTRAN:} You shoot yourself in each toe,
iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the
next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, you
continue anyway because you have no exception processing
ability.
{Algol:} You shoot yourself in the foot with a musket.
The musket is aesthetically fascinating, and the wound
baffles the adolescent medic in the emergency room.
{COBOL:} USEing a COLT45 HANDGUN, AIM gun at LEG.FOOT,
THEN place ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER, and SQUEEZE.
THEN return HANDGUN to HOLSTER. Check whether shoelace needs
to be retied.
{BASIC:} Shoot self in foot with water pistol. On big
systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged.
{PL/I:} You consume all available system resources,
including all the offline bullets. The DataProcessing &
Payroll Department doubles its size, triples its budget,
acquires four new mainframes, and drops the original one on
your foot.
{SNOBOL:} You grab your foot with your hand, then
rewrite your hand to be a bullet. The act of shooting the
original foot then changes your hand/bullet into yet another
foot (a left foot).
{lisp:} You shoot yourself in the appendage which
holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage
which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the
appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself
in the appendage which holds...
{scheme:} You shoot yourself in the appendage which
holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage
which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the
appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself
in the appendage which holds... ...but none of the other
appendages are aware of this happening.
{English:} You put your foot in your mouth, then bite it off.
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From: bp@thedog.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Pane)
I think we need to learn to program rather than focus on one or more languages. A programming language is a grammar and a syntax. If you learn the different types of programming you will be able to switch from one language to another. Each language has specificities, strengths and weaknesses.
Python is a good choice to start ;)
Have fun !
