I realize isn't the right website to be asking this but i dont know where else to ask it. what is a good language to learn for creating .exe files. a programming language that isnt for websites. im interested in learning something like that but i have know idea what language does what. C++, perl; all the same to me.

C++ is very widely used and may be suitable for many applications, but not all - especially if you are doing any serious database applications. Again, it just depends on the application.

Try a Google search with "create windows applications".

Why would you want to restrict yourself to creating applications for only one operating system?



But I don't see what the language has to do with database applications, since all(?) languages will provide an interface to SQL. Actually Lisp is probably the best language to learn...

what about perl. what can it do?

Fundamentally it "can do" more or less anything, and the same is true of all ("proper", i.e. Turing-comple) programming languages. But "can do" isn't the question to ask - the question should be how efficiently you can turn your ideas into working code. For some cases, if execution time is critical the choice may be more limited.

... but there's a _very_ interesting article about Lisp, here:
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html