Help me choose a programming language please

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Date: 12/30/04

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    I need a language that will allow me to learn programming, and will
    continue to be useful.

    I need it to be 'open source' because I want to be sure that it will be
    there in the future, it exists across platforms, and I can get it
    whenever. (is this wrong thinking? should I just get a commercial one?)
    I also want a lot of open source and documentation (books are okay, in
    fact, preferable, even from amazon), so that i can learn from reading
    source code and i can use it to customize/hack/glue/modify something
    for my specific needs.

    The programs I'll be doing are for my personal use, mostly. Essentially
    they will be scripts to organize my needs. I think they will be in the
    general areas of wiki, blog, personal databases, PIM, project
    management, lists, archival and organization of text and data and
    search/retrieval, and so on. As such, I don't think I care much about
    GUI, because being personal programs for my own need, I can just use a
    web interface or even use a command line interface.

    Also, I may want to know how to make dynamic websites. Not that I want
    to make them for others, but the web seems to be an interesting user
    interface.

    So, now that you know; here are my options

    A: LEARN SCRIPTING LANGUAGE
    1. perl
    2. php
    3. ruby
    4. python
    5. tcl

    B: LEARN SOMETHING MORE COMPLEX
    1. JAVA?
    2. one of microsoft's .net language?

    Also, should I learn more than one language at once, with the hope that
    each will help me understand the other, and might prove better for a
    specific need, or should I initially just choose one and stick to it
    until I've mastered it (and possibly even stay with it)?

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