[Chinmoy]

Firstly, you CANNOT decide on starting a new language just like that. If you want to go for some application development with GUI and less botheration about the background coding, then maybe VB or smalltalk has something for you, but if you want to code for the first time, ui think c++ is the place to begin. It is easy, has the base syntaxes which are common to many other languages and has meanngful codes. So if someone would want to seitch from c++ to any other languager it would be easy but to start with VB, switching to other languages gives a hard time. Moreover with VB, youll never get to know issues of portability, memory management etc..