Go with C#. There is a bigger future in it than in Perl, I think. Nobody knows the future, so I am sure someone will come and say I am full of it, but I would go C#.
Okay... My parents have recently started biking again and they're having lots of fun with it. A while ago I made my mom promise to buy and wear a bike helmet when she rode her bike and she has. But I still can't sell my dad on the idea.
He 53 years old and he has 4 reasons that he won't wear...