/prog/'s opinion about some languages

Hey /prog/,

I'm new in this board, so sorry for being a retard.
I'm starting CS at university. After some pseudo-code, we started with Java and Microsoft .NET (Visual Basic...lol)

I had learned some Python, PHP and C++ beforehand by myself, but I'd like to hear your opinion about all the languages I've mentioned, and what languages are worth learning nowadays.

Thanks.
(I know this can lead to a trollfest, so I'm just asking for YOUR opinion)

>>72
We're not talking about just a language, they want a replacement. I took it as understood that for something to be a real replacement^[1], it would need to be popular.


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1. Yes it's a bit of a `no true scotsman', but try to take my point instead of arguing semantics</sub>