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by debacle 5181 days ago
Which languages do you now know?

I would not recommend Haskell as it is a heavy lifting language, not really a scripting language. Perl is probably the strongest scripting language out there, and PHP is certainly the most ubiquitous web language out there. I learned Perl first, which made learning PHP super easy (you just have to unlearn a few things).

You can write scripts in both Perl and PHP, but web programming is definitely much easier in PHP. Try out both and see which one you like.