Good Starter Language? (was Re: REALBasic and OpenAL)

[Leonard, Phil]

>My first programming language was APL.  It's an 
>amazing application of symbolic logic that can reduce a  three-page BASIC 
>program to three lines of code (split into three lines mostly for 
>readability).  Entire multi-million-dollar, multi-story computing centers 
>were built around the hardware that was specially designed to run it (IBM's 
>360/370 series).  One of the first portable comuters was built to run it.
>
>How many people are programming in APL today?

APL !!  I thought I was the only one left that ever used that.  I started with APL, APL\360 actually on an IBM 360/40.  Those were the days.