I am thinking about learning a Programming language 🤔

@Native Already know HTML and some PHP.

@iMystery If you want to stick with HTML and PHP, JavaScript is a good add-on. PHP on the server and JS on the page. A good combo. HTML and JS can also be used to make mobile apps using Cordova.

@Bushranger I am kinda looking at moving away from Web Development and learn Software development instead.

@iMystery Cool. Then perhaps Java and Python would be the way to go. But, again, that's jut my opinion and I have absolutely no qualifications in the field.

@Bushranger So far the research I have done also brings me to Java and Python... so you are onto something.

@iMystery If you really want to learn software development, you will have to learn C, in my opinion.

@helenS 🤔 So are you suggesting there are certain limitation with Python?

@iMystery I don't know Python (I program in Perl, mainly), but I assume it's a very-high-level language, and I think you would have to learn an "intermediate" level language such as C (one step above assembly).
You will learn how to allocate a pointer to a pointer to an array of chars.

@helenS C or C++? Not trying to be funny, genuine question

@helenS From what I have read from writings of other programmers who are familiar with multiple languages, Python is easiest to learn especially for beginners