syntaxwise, what is the best programming language?

python is honestly the language that schools should teach to introduce people to programming. it doesn't give you all the same options as a language like c++ (no pointers, no switch statements- though there are weird alternatives to switch statements in python that i don't really get?), and it isn't really powerful enough to run a decent game engine in, but it has really simple syntax that's very quick and easy to learn. it's a good gateway to other languages (and.. it's perfectly valid to use for anything that isn't super intensive)

i really enjoy writing in it, the class i took for it was a couple of semesters ago and i still use it just for fun