Learn how to program

So you want to be a programmer ? Which programming languages should you learn ?

1. Python (wikipedia article)
2. Perl (wikipedia article)
3. Lisp (wikipedia article)
4. C/C++ (wikipedia article C)/(wikipedia article C++)
5. Java (wikipedia article)

Next I would recommend to learn Ruby (wikipedia article), and Javascript (wikipedia article). And although not really programming languages, I think it’s necessary to learn PHP (wikipedia article) and MySQL (wikipedia article) (after spending several years learning to master the 5 initial languages…).

And of course spend also some time working with a Linux distribution (wikipedia article) (go for Ubuntu or Debian).

One final word: reading books on the subject is good, practice is better.

Do you agree with this choice ?