Quote Originally Posted by The Unintelligible View Post
cURL and C++ are fine for making bots. The language as a whole, however, is not. It's all definitely possible in C++, the general learning curve and the structure of the language just isn't ideal for that sort of thing when you have languages like Python and Perl.

There's no need to learn a .NET language. I'd recommend that you learn Python more than anything else.
Do you make your bots in Python? Everyone on LG seemed to have some fetish for using .NET languages, and I didn't quite understand why. I don't like Visual Basic much, but that's just me I guess. Can python interact with the web easily? I know with C++ you need things like cURL, that make it annoying and hard to do (At least, for someone as inexperienced as me.)