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What is a good first language?

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-06 16:45

My 20 year old brother wants to get into programming.  I want to set him up with a language that has these features:

1. Easy to learn, must have simple syntax
2. Immediate results, easy to make graphical and text outputs.
3. Fully featured language(I want him to be able to easily progress into more advanced stuff and not be limited by the language)
4. Fast(So he gets the idea of how powerful computers are)

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-06 17:12

>>4
OP here, yea I was thinking about java.  It has the bonus of being a C-derivative so its good to jump off to the other mainstream languages if he finds some of java's most annoying parts too annoying. 
>>2
>>5
Scheme?? I hope you guys are trolling.  Scheme might be good for first year MIT student prodigies but it doesn't meet the criteria I listed.

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