I'm a programmer (in my own eyes anyways) back in the old days I started with basic, then Asm, then pascal, then Vc++, now I'm a big Vb 6.0 fan. I like vb because its a rapid app. development language, so my customers don't have to wait very long for cool programs. No matter how visual C++ gets, it will never be as quick to develop in (not that I haven't developed large programs in it). OpenGL is just a library for programming graphics, I don't think that you need to use any one programming language to implement it.