First, easy programming language?

I have a friend who dislikes programming, but I can tell that he would be a good programmer. He's not even very fond of knowing about computers more intimately than to operate them as he needs, but he's pretty easy to convince, and I just don't know which language to recommend him.

I have experience in LISP, and while it's good, I don't think it would be an ideal language. Haskell, FORTRAN, COBOL, Scheme are all undoable. I'm really looking for one to get him into the mindset and idea of programming, so even as good as C is, I don't think it's a very good language to start him on.

Maybe python, or perhaps ruby? Any other ones that are possibly easier?

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I've yet to come across a programming language that isn't somehow tedious to work with.  The reason for the tedium just changes based on what design paradigm the language employs or enforces which also changes the chance rate of encountering the tedium.