I just want to thank everyone who responded constructively to my post. It''s greatly appreciated. I feel a bit more directed.
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quote:Original post by andy_fish
Oh GOd, don''t start with Perl, you will develop such horrible programming habits and style that eventually you will just have to quit programming and start a different job because your habits will be so horrible.

I dunno. Some of Perl''s constructs lead to very elegant programs. It just depends how you use it. Perl for gaming is interesting. Even with the OpenGL bindings and such, I never in a million years would have thought of writing a game in Perl.

To the OP, Java''s practically your only choice. Just about the only language that can run embedded in a web browser, and the other ones that can aren''t as well established, only for Windows machines, etc.