Shoutbox

There isn't exactly "a best" language. It depends on what you wanna do, where your main focal point is, what you're programming background is, what you already know about programming, etc...

Many will say C++ is the "best". But this isn't always true, it only depends on the point of view. eg: a beginner wouldn't call C++ the best as it is relativly difficult to learn compared to others (more difficult than VB for example; the learing curve in C++ is much steeper)...

If you totally start for scratch (you don't know anything about programming), than VB is the easiest to begin with. On the other hand, if you directly start with C++ (which is more difficult) you are able to do more advanced stuff later on when you're a die-hard programmer, but in the beginning you will encounter _a lot_ of stuff which you don't understand or things which wont work.

IMHO, the "best" would be to learn both (C++ and VB) at the same time. The benefit of this is that you will learn basic programming very quickly (in VB) and you'll be able to pull of some stuff and have quick results, but at the main time you'll understand what you're doing (because of C++).

PS: Note that VB is not the same as VB.NET (what Stigmata also suggested). VB.NET is a totally different language (with some major disadvantages!) than VB (the only benefit from it as far as I'm concearned is that MS and thus all rest declared it as the future; not to mention that they already say this for years and still .NET languages aren't very popular; I think that says enough about them).