Alright, I posted this here because there was no general programming section.

A friend and I are planning to write a version of Conway's game of life because he is really into celluar automata stuff. He doesn't have any experience programming really and I was wondering what the best language for this would be.

We will be using Windows 98 or XP, so Win32. It would be nice to stay away from the Win32 API because it is so complicated (especially for someone who, like I said before, has had no prior programming experience.) Do you think Java would be best for this? C/C++ in graphics mode? Are there any more elegant languages for this project?

Thanks for any help.

you can use the CMU graphics lib if you wanna be a uber-chicken.. or you can use MFC if you wanna tackle the beast.. Java is ok.. specially if you want to make it as an online game.. but its kinda complex, and slow if your computer has a (processor