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>The be all, end all language
Lisp

>Respectable languages
Haskell, Ruby, C#, Forth, Smalltalk, JavaScript, Ada

>"I like to go with the latest trendy things and pretend I know about programming but I need my hand held and can't handle a real language"
Python, ML, Obj-C, Scala, Erlang

>User friendly or "noob" languages:
Visual Basic, Java, PHP, BASIC, Lua, TCL

>"What? Oh I forgot about those, no one cares" languages:
FORTRAN, C++, Perl, COBOL, Pascal

>Laughably useless in the real world:
C

>Full retard
C, Python, D, Prolog, Erlang