He's right!, C/C++ is a powerful one, has everything, but the language it's not so simple dude, there are 2 ways to program in C/C++, the first in console the other in win32.
Console it's easy.
the console executes c programing in MS-DOS
win32
These is very but very hard, Width all my experience in programming I say that it's fine top program in C and simple, but if you dont have much experience then kiss good bye, just try to programm a little windows say hello world in win32
, and youll see how hard is to do one all by yourself.
Vsiaul Basic is very easy, you use the programms to create labels and that kind of stuff
, theres a programm too like visual basci but not for basic, is for JAVA, visual Cafe, it's excelent I tell you.