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

[Jim Herrmann]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>People have been writing code for PC's in C now for a 
>couple of decades, and it doesn't look like someone's going to suddenly sweep 
>it all away with some new fad.  If you understand C, you'll understand most 
>of the OS coding projects that are around today.
>  
>
Would you say the same about COBOL?  COBOL still runs the world.  There 
are still major projects being developed in COBOL.  People have been 
coding in COBOL for 45 years.  It's probably just a niche because 
Jonathan doesn't use it anymore.  :-)

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