<p>For websites, static HTML all the way. Check out scripts like ‘werc’ or ‘webby’ that can help with that.</p>
<p>And about languages, ‘Python’ is great for scripting and stuff, but I couldn’t really imagine managing large applications in it. I’ve found ‘C’ and ‘C++’ to be quite awesome and I’m sure you’d find the same. C is basically just macro assembler - coding in C you can almost directly predict what the generated code underneath would look like, and that is pretty cool, and necessary in some cases such as embedded programming or systems development. C++ is good if you want some more abstractions on this but want to retain performance.</p>
<p>Soon it becomes not about languages but more about what you do with them, how you implement algorithms and how you organise, structure and design your code.</p>