windows programming

i read SICP, learned haskell, and have now realized that in order to get a real job i need to learn some windows programming. nobody will hire you just because you understand loeb.

what's the best languages that are used today?

Actually I'm used to say that being a good programmer doesn't mean know a lot of languages, but be able to understand any new programming language in a few days...

However there's an important thing to keep in mind: you may know a programming language, but you need to know even the platform where you are working on. So you are right.

However... programming on a Windows platform is a kind of nightmare! That's why I feel to work with java, that gives you enough abstraction to avoid the very BAD windows API.