i personally started learning php as my first language and then went on to Java and VB.

but is it a good start up language? because although its syntax is laid back and "simple", i picked up a few bad habits.

I didn't really learn the important of classes at the start (this could be partly due to me teaching myself).

but then again there is a vast library of support and predefined functions and can easily be linked to virtually any thing like flash, sage, MySQL, curl, SOAP, creating BOTS which i have found very useful

Originally asked by: rosh3000 on Stack Overflow