Best language to learn?

[Antarctica32]

what would be the best programming language to learn that would be the most useful in the years ahead? By most useful I mean most widely used, highest need for programmers, etc.

[unknownPoster]

The only really correct answer is "All of them."

The future of computing is hard to predict.

Anyway, don't learn programming languages, learn how to write effective and useful code, that skill is language agnostic and will always apply to programming regardless of the current trends.

[NovaAesa]

You should learn lots of different types of languages. I would start with C, C++, Java, Python, SQL, LISP, and ASM (in any order, or all at the same time).

[shawnhcorey]

I would start with one of the modern scripting languages: Perl, Python, Ruby, or PHP. It's easy to do simple tasks with them and you can expand on their knowledge.

[Petrolea]

This is a question that doesn't have a correct answer.
PHP is popular, OOP languages like Java, C++, also Python and scripting languages, there's too many things too consider. Whatever fits you best.

Once you're pro in one language and can do awesome stuff in it it doesn't matter which one it is.