hahaha you're both idiots, if you know nothing about scripting, do a really easy language to get a gist of it, then move on to harder languages
wanna know what the easiest scripting is?
None, none at all.
It depends on the person, but tompson, i know you want to create an interactive research game.
try each language that interests you, whichever one is the least painless you start with.
(spoiler alert: C++ was painless for me to learn and lua was next to impossible for me to learn without experience)