Now if you're going to ask me whether I have a favourite language, yeah, I do, and that's probably a tie between C++ or PHP.  But that's not something I say because I think they're objectively better, it's something I say because they're frankly the ones that have most consistently found me gainful employment that lasted as a programmer.  Fad languages like erlang or J++ come and go, but you are almost assured a job *somewheres* in the programming industry if you have proven experience with those two.