[cont] Visual Basic (though that's hardly basic), etc. I would suggest a language like Python, Lua, or OCaml. Those are all relatively easy and they are quite different in programming style. My personal favorite language is C#, followed closely by Haskell. You may find C# to work well, but Haskell is much more difficult to learn, and I don't suggest learning it early on. F# is closer to [cont]