I used to do a lot of programming in the olden days before the dinosaur and the internet. I did dBase- basic- foxpro- a lot of VB- and some others. In the past 10 to 15 years- I ve gotten away from it and have done more programming management than anything else. I d like to get back into coding- but there seems to be a lot of choices.

What is the general consensus for a good programming path? C?- Java?- Ajax?- Python?- Perl?- .Net?- something else?

Well I am going to start and engineering degree in October. I have the whole summer and basically will have a lot of free time. I am running Debian Etch and Lenny. I have a Windows XP Pro CD (not installed) so I can do any programming under Windows as well. Basically I want to be able to write small programs that would help me do a task. I am also aiming at understanding linux configuration files and writing scripts. I was thinking of starting with Python and then C. Then I read on the internet that nowadays most people messing with computers should know PHP and HTML. Is this true? I am also not sure whether I should learn Python or Perl (or Lisp)? I will have at most 3 months so I need to make the right choice.
I have done some Pascal but it was just a little bit and I don t remember almost anything. Otherwise I am really good at learning from books and you just name a book and I will find it.

I would like to know which of these scripting language has better outlook. Which of these is high-demand in 2008 and 2009?

my form submission starts with a £ uk pound sign then after submitted and output to content-type:text/html by a perl script changes to two characters! (the £ sign the last one)
Its ok now i ve found the problem.What it was-was the content type header that was in the script was like a real html header.I deleted this and added the simple;
print "content-type:text/html\n\n";
Everything was ok after that!

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