Best language for a person that knows a bit of programming?

Hello guys, I'm moving fast. I know how to do bash scripts, vi, etc.
Now, I would like to know what should be the best language for a person that knows VB .NET good.
Now I know VB .NET is a easy language. The reason I'm moving away is the letters "M$"
And plus, VB .NET is only for Windows. What about you Arch Linux folks? What about Mac?
Suggestions?
Last edited by VOT Productions (2011-10-28 11:15:26)

I can only disagree with most of the things in that table :-) GNU Software in generally is very convenient to use and well documented, GPL and CC licenses are a great acquisition and Jabber/XMPP also, because it runs as a free competitor against proprietary services, such as ICQ. Programming language and editor is a matter of choice.
This is getting off topic. I only included the table to provide a reference on why I might recommend C and awk over higher level languages.
If you disagree with the content of the table, you may wish to start a new thread about it in an appropriate part of the forum. Even if I don't get time to personally respond, I suspect it would be something many people around here would find interesting.
Of course, in the end one can learn any language they like, but learning C++ using a text editor will probably take too long while learning Python using an full-featured IDE will probably take a couple of months.
It depends on how you measure "too long", and it depends on the intent. If you want to belt out bloated, crappy code in a hurry to make your employer happy, then certainly using Python in an IDE might be the way to go. I myself write bloated, crappy VBA for just this purpose :-) But I don't think this is what the OP is asking for.
The enhanced understanding and control that comes from learning C or C++ and using vim or emacs is well worth the extra learning time, in my opinion.

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Thanks to everyone for the thoughtful replies. It looks like many are in agreement that python might be a good step up from BASIC-256. I did some reading but I would appreciate some clarification on which version to use, python, python2 or python3 (I really don't understand how significant the differences are). As companions to python many things have been mentioned: blender, allegro, SDL, PyGame, Löve, SFML, Python-Ogre and PyGTK. Any thoughts on which of these might be the easiest to deal with, (or none)?
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Thirty five years ago when I was at university studying music composition, one of my music teachers was also teaching a class on Lisp (lots of irritating silly parentheses) I took the class and for the good of all I decided to stick with music. Actually, I've been enjoying learning BASIC-256 with my son, maybe, after all these years I should take another look at Lisp.
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I looked at it briefly and it looks promising for someone at my (his) level.
Thanks again to all of you for taking the time to enlighten an otherwise clueless person, drifting aimlessly on the sea of mysterious computer stuff.
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> For a couple of days now I have been trying to develop
an AIR
> business application in Flash, but several times I have
hit into
> inconveniences using Flash. Eg. there is no DateField in
Flash
> (only in AS2 which is not compatible with AIR)
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> Are there any of the three different ways of making AIR
> applications that are preferrable over the other, maybe
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> that more things are possible, but in that it's better
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