Python is great glue. But it's huge. Packed full of features. Has all sorts of syntactic sugar. It's the C++ of scripting languages. Great for an intermediate programmer who just needs to slap something together. But at the very beginning, these can actually be drawbacks because there's so very much to learn.
I would suggest something small, that you can realistically fit all in your head. I honestly believe Pascal is still an excellent choice. For something a little less low-level and more scripting-like, Lua seems nice. The JavaScript ecosystem is awkward, and there are things to criticize (no integers?) but by itself, it's a nice small language as well.
I would suggest something small, that you can realistically fit all in your head. I honestly believe Pascal is still an excellent choice. For something a little less low-level and more scripting-like, Lua seems nice. The JavaScript ecosystem is awkward, and there are things to criticize (no integers?) but by itself, it's a nice small language as well.