Good Starter Language? (was Re: REALBasic and OpenAL)

[Jared]

This kind of resource is helpful when it comes to deciding
what language to start working in.

TIOBE Programming Community Index for March 2005
http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

I've watched PHP slowly climb the ranks til it is
now #4 where it will probably level out, although
this map doesn't seem to be slowing down any time
soon:

http://www.php.net/usage.php

Whatever you do, learn SQL. All languages eventually have
to use it in some form or another, and a LOT of dense
logic can be packed into a quality SQL statement, meaning
that if you get real good at SQL, you'll be able to
jump quickly into any language because you can get SQL
to do your data crunching.

And you might as well get good at Apache, for many
of the same reasons, especially with the coming advent
of SAJAX interactivity: (http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/)
(sajax is the brains behind Google Maps)

http://news.netcraft.com/

-Jared