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!

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Be careful what you call a "scripting language", it's somewhat of a diminutive, very high level languages like Python and Ruby are being used for much more than what's usually considered "scripting". 

These languages in one sense it might be a "glue" language -- high level libraries are built on top of other languages like C and Python/Ruby/Perl act as the glue to weild these libraries.  These libraries would be built for problem domains were C is the only way to get the job done efficiently.  In problem domains were the high level langauge doesn't get in the way there's nothing wrong with using a "scipting" language to implement everything in an application.