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[Muz]

Java, Python, C++, SQL. Languages that get you jobs (been job searching the whole week, and a little annoyed that I don't know Java or SQL).

I heard Haskell was nice too, never gave it a run.

Also, while C++ is a little annoying to make games with, it's still great with more limited machinery like mobile phones and things that directly connect with the hardware. There is no "best" language, what you want is the language most suited to what you intend to do.

I'm of the belief that if you're trying to make games or something, you might as well just pick up Game Maker and not bother with programming languages until you hit its barriers. That way, you skip the annoying low level stuff and focus on actually trying to make things. An analogy is that you're picking up the language to make ugly, pidgin conversation instead of focusing on annoying grammar rules, but later on pick up a proper language when you've grasped the grammar rules and want to move on to poetry and novel writing.

It's like learning to paint or draw, with the exception that painting and drawing is intuitive and use of a pencil is learned very early on; programming, however, is more alien.

Programming is hardly alien. It's a lot easier than most real world languages, just that a grammatical mistake is fatal. Or rather painting isn't all that intuitive. I learned to program long before I learned to draw.

[GlyphGryph]

Ruby, Javascript, and C# get you jobs too, assuming you want to do stuff on the web.

[Levi]

Ruby and Python! 

[Shades]

Java, Python, C++, SQL. Languages that get you jobs (been job searching the whole week, and a little annoyed that I don't know Java or SQL).

SQL takes seconds to learn enough to do most jobs (although longer to understand efficiency aspects, which annoyingly change between databases), and as you know C++ just say you know Java too, picking up one after you know the other is trivial.

Personally I find myself using C++ mostly for game style development. It's quick to work with and easy to test and there isn't really any gotta issues (unlike say C). It's also very fast compare to pretty much any other language, especially dealing with mutlicore machines.

As an aside there is an experimental g++ (which is a C++ compiler) macro '_GLIBCXX_PARALLEL' which uses something akin to magic to allow your code to run on multiple threads with basically zero effort, provided you use the stl functions. (Obviously not really magic, does some analysis during compile to see if your calls are independent and does the parallelism there. Very cool sufficiently advanced technology though so may as well be magic)