This is a follow-up for Choosing mobile dev platform/framework and looks closer at the sixth step - Any programming languages you want to avoid?
It's better to consider languages you want to avoid rather than listing the ones you do want to dig into. If you start selecting a programming language, you will limit the number of frameworks you can consider.
Example: you only want to write in C#, there is Mono/Monotouch and of course MS .net. But what if that platform doesn't support the features you need?
Since the syntax of languages today is barely dialects of one another, you should as a developer/programmer be willing to jump into a new language, just as much as a toddler wants to learn how to walk. (Yes, I have a toddler at home).
When you have learnt 3-4 programming languages, you start seeing the similarities, and the differences, and you usually figure out that most languages are very closely related. It's just another object, a function, a variable, an array here, a hash there etc.
Although working on several languages can be confusing at times, always keep reference manuals close by when you are stuck.
I only have one language I always want to keep away from, and that is VB. I always end up using more time figuring out why on earth Microsoft never put VB out of it's misery...
When you have compiled your list over languages you don't want to learn, go through it again, and consider if you really do want do choose a framework that suits the needs for your project, or suits your programming language skills.
