Which web development language?
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you can pick any of them... for the most part they all do the same thing. It's when you start getting into more advanced stuff when the language choice begins to matter.
Most important is to pick one and create a couple sites (or a really big one) that will allow you to learn all the facets of the language. From that you'll learn a lot about how the web actually works, and especially how a programmed website works.
The theory behind it will carry across most languages, even to applicaiton languages to some extent. Once you have a good idea of how a dynamic site really works, figure out what you really want to do and what language is best for it. By then you'll ahve a better understanding of what to look for.
I, personally learned with CF. It was really easy to learn with, as it's completely tag based, and there wasn't much detail in the coding. Most of the stuff is done out of sight. Unfortunately CF and ASP is pretty expensive to learn and maintain. and ASP is expensive to 'extend'.
I eventually moved to PHP, and considered it to be great mostly becuase of the enormous community, and best of all, it's FREE. There's thousands of open source scripts out there to learn from as well.
But without the 3 years of base learning in CF, I'd never be as far in PHP as I am now.
Good luck!