Like others said, it totally depends on what you want to do. If you want to get into enterprise or serious object oriented programming, Java is a good starting point. Web programming, PHP is easy to learn (though also easy to learn sloppy habits for, so pay attention). I'd advise against something like C for a first language; Perl is also probably a bit too open for a first language.
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