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!

>>35
Also Python compiles to bytecode before it runs, so "scripting" isn't even accurate.

>>36
Not for a beginner it's not :P
Dive into Python is what I've used, and it's great if you already know how to program and you're sick of books that walk you through elementary concepts.