Hi there,

Forst and Foremost, forgive my pure ignorance as regards to programming. I appologise. And I would appreciate the time taken to read this thread. Thank-you.
Having been brought up with computers as a child I began Programming at a very early age on the ZX81 and then Commadore 64. I managed to finally create my own Drawing Program Capable Of drawing Circles and Triangles etc filling them in in colour etc etc.

But then due to life's circumstances I abandoned computers for a long time.
Having Gotten back into Computers in the last few years I have gone past the stage of playing games and keep myself much more amused playing around with utilities and finding out how far into the windows system I can Dig and still understand whats going on and why things happen when they happen etc.
But As much as I understand where things are and why they do what they do, I Remain Fascinated as regards to the structure of the programs. For example A simple Alarm clock.....How do you compile such a program. And More to the point, May I emphasize at this point, I understand it will take years to Fully Get to Grips with only One Language, I would Liike to Debug Programs.
In the years That I have been Away, programming has moved on drastically from :- 10 cls
20 Print "I want to get back into it"
30 goto 20 ...... etc. (DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER??)

So to come to the end of my Question, Finally, Which language do I choose. Are they in anyway similar to The Old school Languages, back all that time ago.
Any Help I recieve Would Be Magic. Maybe Even some Links To usefull sites or Ebooks.
Cheers.