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While in C, you have to figure out how to compile programs, deal with all the pointers crap, memory management, no easily available datastructures (though C++'s STL has some, thank you STL). There is a shitload of things you have to figure out in C/C++ before you can begin to program actual stuff. While in python or matlab, you can just start using a book or tutorial. It's shit easy and probably Logo is easier, never used it. ...My point being that interpreted languages are on the whole easier. And C/C++ is definitely fucking not easy and no one should ever start programming using them.