I keep returning to Perl every now and than as its the only language I would describe as fun.
Maybe to a sadist.
;D
Actually, Perl isn't that bad a language to play with, I use it a lot myself. Provided you don't go crazy with regular expression (jeeze, have you seen the one in the CPAN module for validating email addresses that is based on the RFC - INSANE); I swear that regex was devised by someone as a joke - and people took it seriously for some reason.
Now - for fun, I have found that Python is a pretty fun "modern" language (and for ultra-fun - VPython can't be beat).
Then again, I have yet to try FreeBasic or Gambas; I have a soft spot in me for BASIC (having used that as my first programming language on a TRS-80 Color Computer 2), and have played with a lot of them. I think that Gambas could be a real winner, something close to the ease of use of VB6 for creating apps. I think FreeBasic, though, would be closer to using QuickBASIC or PowerBasic, or one of the other DOS BASICs.
