I'd second Nimboso on Python, that one you can get up and running quite fast and the environment is quite good. C++ has a bit nasty library dependency system if you use Microsoft IDE. Granted, even on Windows systems third-party build systems like CMake can be used to reduce your workload by a large factor but the initial setup time is still somewhat high. Furthermore, if you want to one day start learning C++, I'd advice you to learn plain C first. It is much less painful to introduce classes and STL after you have basic syntax down.