/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)

>>7
Pascal was a cleanup of the design of Algol, based on the theory of STRUCTURAL PROGRAMMING. Basically it was the Scheme of imperative languages. And I'm pretty sure there were no garbage collected imperative languages in 1970 (except maybe APL, if it even counts as a language).