programming language(s) for bioinformatics

I am a high school sophomore and visited a professor in the molecular biology sciences who is also an expert programmer. (He builds robots, biochips, and a bunch of other cool gadgets.) In discussing other things, he urged me to learn Python programming, and now im very interested in computer science, and progressing rapidly. I know Python is a powerful language for its simple syntax. But if I want to go into bioinformatics (especially to use the tool http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/) and computer programming in general, maybe even study cybersecurity, is it an ideal language to start with? or is C/C++ a better choice?

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There are actually enough bioinformatics-related libraries for CL. I would just tell OP to use whatever he finds comfortable. I find Lisp comfortable and thus I use it for my needs, if you find something else, you use that - of course, you do need to know your fair share of languages before making a choice, otherwise you might as well pick some inappropriate language and keep on using it (and wasting a lot of your time because some languages are good for more rapid development cycles, others are better for performance) because it's the only thing you know.