I'm not exactly a programmer (I've written some really cool Matlab code and I make SAS do nifty things, but no real languages other than dabbling in java) and g

I'm not exactly a programmer (I've written some really cool Matlab code and I make SAS do nifty things, but no real languages other than dabbling in java) and getting the environment set up is a big intimidator to trying a new language (it took me 20 hours to get AS3 to compile and I never got box2d to work). I'm now tempted to try at least one or two on compilr.