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by claystu 3972 days ago
I would say Python and Javascript are both easier to install--you don't even have to install Javascript--and Python is easier to get coding in thanks to 1) fewer high level concepts that Ruby gets from Smalltalk and 2) Idle.

Having said that, Ruby is the superior language to Python once you get going, in my opinion, because of what it steals from Smalltalk.