What’s your purpose? FORTRAN and COBOL are mainly banks and scientists these days, so probably not. VB? Really, it sucks. C++ is good, but can turn many beginners off programming. JavaScript is pretty good and easy, and is useful for web pages.
Then there’s C#, a pretty easy and elegant language, mainly used for the Windows platform. It’s been my personal favorite for years.
Or you can learn ObjectiveC, not easy, but you’ll be programming for the iPad, iPhone and Mac.
Many people love Ruby, you might want to check that out.
Thanks for the info. I have written in C, machine language, FORTRAN and Visual Basic. The only one I liked was Visual Basic. It’s good to know that C# has your approval. I might play with it just to dust off my skills.