C++

I second this.

String strings work more or less how you would expect them to in Blitzmax. Char arrays is the C way of doing things but people still like to use them. I guess some people are into self-pain.

I don't get why people argue so much about what langauge to learn. Just learn C++ and if you don't like it you can do something else. All this debate doesn't help his original question guys, he wasn't asking what to learn!