What comes next?

As far as programming experience goes I have a:

* A decent background in imperative programming using Pascal
* An even better background in programming using JAVA
* An I did learn Python sort of. I can manage. It an easy language.

So I was going to head the C and than C++ way but I thought experienced /prog/rammers might give me some wiser advice.

Note that the languages there were not my choice. There were all  needed for HS.

I also considered FORTRAN to learn some functional programming.


My concern is that some langauges might be too old and outdated for a young 21^st century programmer.

Please don't list any useless languages.

Thanks!

>>2-3

Thanks for helping out. SICP is already on my TO DO list.

>>5

This leads me to conclude that IHBT.

No it's me who might have been trolled because I still can't get a good idea of the potential of FORTRAN and what are to be used as functional languages.

>>8

I didn't say I was thought at HS. In fact I was thought close to nothing at HS but because they were included in the syllabus I had to learn those instead of other languages.