Language doesn't matters, what matters is the output from your programming skills..Language is just the medium, you can choose any one of your choice...But if you ask about IDE then it's 'ECLIPSE'
yeah i agree with what you said...coz we are engineers and we care about output...but its also true that every programming paradigm have their own pro's and con's and i was just eager to know which programming language you find is sexy any why it seduced u...dont say all are sexy..
I started a discussion few days ago which was titled : Advice From An Old Programmer (http://chautari.semicolonvalley.org/discussion/14/advice-from-an-old-programmer). I think the link in that thread in some extent would give a profound answer to your question. (Note: That post is from book "Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition", whose author is in programming profession since a "very long time", according to the post.)
To answer your question, I have been playing with Javascript a lot lately and love this language. Thanks to node.js for the SSJS.
I have been programming with python for last 4 years and the reason why i love python is that i spend less time googling for syntax for implementing my idea and i am really very happy with the standard library that python comes with (batteries included). See this http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html Since its interpreted language and sometimes if it doesnt meet my speed requirement i write those portion in C,
@bhu1st: Since you are playing with JavaScript, its nice to look into the book http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748. Although JavaScript is a very nice language there are programming construct which can drive you crazy.