Which computer language program is best for undergrads?


I will be starting at a 4-yr institution for a math degree.

The school material states that the student should be learning a high-
level computer language such as Fortran, C, or C++.

My question is... having a choice, is any one language better in any
way over the others? I might be asking 'better' in terms of 'ease of
use', 'ease of learning', or 'difficult to learn but more powerful/
useful once learned', or 'less likely to become obsolete in the next
20 yrs', etc...

So what do you folks think? What is the best language for a beginning
student to choose, and what are the some of the reasons that you think
so?

I might post this question in a programming group as well.

thanks


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