Best Programming Language to start with?

Hello peeps. As someone who hasn't been lucky enough to be immersed into the world of programming when he was young, and has a hard time getting into it with net ressources, I need an easy and fast-learning language to start off with.

Any recommendations? Cheers!

>>17
I wasn't counting QB as an actual language :)

The problem with C++ is it's a fantastically complex language. That and I, in all my 14 year old wisdom, bought C++ For Dummies. Literally half the book was the author calling functional programmers idiots and talking about nachos. Worst thing was, he thought C was a functional language.