Originally Posted by Village Genius
In the end though its not very important, once you are an experienced programmer languages are only minor differences. I've been programming for about 9 years and to name a few off the top of my head I know PHP, C, C++, Java, VB, C#, Python, Javascript and CGI/PERL. Perl and Python I picked up in a single day not because I'm particularly smart or anything, but because they share the same concepts as all the others I know.
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I'd say the difference between C/C++ and Python, Perl, PHP, Javascript is a bit more than minor. Pointers/pointer arithmetic, memory management, and operator overloading take some getting used to.