Hi Guys

I wanted to develop a backtesting software that could analyse historical price data, perform some functions on them and tell me if the system worked.

Since i had no prior coding experience, i bought Murach's VB 2008, downloaded vb express edition and started to learn. (5 months into it now)

I had a few doubts which i hope you guys would be able to answer

1) Is VB the right language to design backtesting softwares?
2) If not then how different/difficult are the alternate languages you guys suggest?

Thanks.