I know the typical answer is "Whatever you know", but assuming a person has no prior programming background, which language would you suggest? PG seems to suggest Lisp (Clojure)? Javascript? Go? Python?
based on my experience & reading . . each language has its own strength, its not easy to say which one is best for rapid development.
For machine learning/AI - Python
Web app - Nodejs/PHP
Mobile - JS
Enterprise apps - Java/c#
Desktop - c#
DSL - Racket