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Originally Posted by DOPE
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There isn't a 'best language to learn'. All depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
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This is the right answer.
And since you said what you want to do is maintain websites, I'd recommend PHP. You'll probably pick up a little JavaScript on the way too to make things a little shinier.
In reality, you'll learn a bunch of languages if you get into programming, and the first one will simply be the first one you learned. Learning additional programming languages is not like learning spoken languages.
Once you've learned one language enough to feel like you 'know how to program', learning the next one is more like learning a new dialect. A few new vocab words, a few new idioms, and you're set. This is not 100% true for every single programming language, but it is as far as "useful" and popular ones go (Python and C/C++ and Java and JavaScript and Ruby and Go and the like).
I don't personally use PHP at all, but if your goal is to make a first step into making a few dollars maintaining websites, I have to imagine it's the shortest route from little-to-no-experience to $.
Scope out some tutorials and try setting up a site backed by a DB for something you're into. Even if it's absurd, just get something up and running online.
Currently I'm mainly doing iOS, did web programming and research stuff in the past. Programming is not 'for' everyone and it takes awhile (years?) to really wrap your head around it. You can be productive before that, but just don't give up, and accept some ambiguity in things you don't understand, and just keep crackin.
Good luck and feel free to ask me questions.