Newfag

I'm a newfag programmer, so I don't have any experience, whatsoever. In other words, I'm a newfag still in the womb. What would be a good programming language to start on? I'm a mathematician, so I don't necessarily need huge 'user friendly' things.

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IDLE, anyone?
trolling aside, python is, IMHO, a nice language to start with since it's a multiparadigm language. Functional programming suits mathematicians? Sure, but also does assembler (cf. Don Knuth). So you must learn both imperative and functional programming, and after starting with python you can try C and Haskell.