Easiest programming language

What is easiest programming language you think?

I'd go with Perl personally. The easiest language would depend a lot on a lot of different things, exposure to computers & computer science in general, mathematical knowledge, way you think (creative/logical etc), resources available to you, teacher/tutor, ability to concentrate etc etc. Most of the popular languages offer at least one thing the others dont.

just my 2 cents
Displeaser

If you have had no experience with programming before then i would suggest Visual Basic, once you have the basics of the language you can quite quickly learn how to create windows applications, interactive web sites and even run scripts on windows to ease those menial tasks... however there are some drawbacks...

firstly it is pretty much a windows only language, there are some ports (darkbasic springs to mind) which work on other operating systems.

also once you get into VB without any other experience its quite difficult to progress from that to other languages such as c++ or java.

Although logic is common through all languages, vb stands out because the language is designed to be easy to understand a lot of it is basic english... if... then... else and there are very few symbols used

If you consider the bash scripting language, a language, that's what I would go with.
If not, then it's got to be C (not C++).
Unfortunately, my two top picks aren't even offered.

Im only programming wiht Python about month but i like it.This poll is just for look what you everybody else think

I've been through a lot of programming languages, and I'm still a visual basic guru (i just don't use it because i don't use windows anymore).

Define 'easy'. Easy to learn? python. Easy to use? ruby. Quickest to get results when you know what you're doing with it? perl.

I'm going to go ahead and say ruby anyway.

I voted for Python because I have found it alot easier than C++ and few years ago learned basics of Turbo Pascal =D

Other, simply because I love lisp, and simply because it's... simple and much more powerful than the other languages listed here.

It's such a simple language that it can be exemplified in a simple function like map; much like how Smalltalk can be summed up in on a single cue-card using a large font.

The language I'd recommending in Scheme, a Lisp based language. It's a bit of a strange choice admittedly but it's the first language taught in all of the best universities (MIT, Berkley etc).

Amazingly they manage to teach the core of the language in a single lecture; more or less .


Of the languages here Python is the easiest to learn, but if I may express my opinion freely (and I usually get into fights for this), Python is fundamentally flawed.

I would second LPs recommendation of Ruby because it combines a lot of the simplicity of Python, with influences from languages like Smalltalk, Perl and of course Lisp.

Ruby however can't be summed up with such a small example, or come even close to being summed up.


Summary: of course the choice is yours and there are many very nice languages around. I personally would choose Lisp, Smalltalk, Io then Ruby in that order.


@scoper: VB has often been described as brain damage; I've heard that it's nearly impossible to teach good programming practices to students who have been taught VB as a first language .

Take care,

Mark.

I totally agree with you, but from the point of view of someone who has no knowledge of programming at all, VB must be the easiest to learn which was the question, not the best to progress from.

Just to clarify, i hate VB with a passion

I voted for Python. It's easy to learn, and it's powerful tool right hands.

disagree. python is probably easier to learn.

For someone who started his programming interest in qbasic, i speak honestly when i say python is easier. python doesn't even have a switch statement, how can you get easier than something that only has 1 conditional (excluding loops)?

Maybe your right, but to me (an english speaker ) the second code block makes more sense