I am an "old school" developer and i have experience with all kinds of languages, JAVA, C, PHP, VB etc..

Here is the problem:

I am wanting to write rather SIMPLE applications where i see (and think) that C# or VB.NET is just crazy overkill.

(A typical example for such an application would be a Google scraper which gets results using a Google API)

I need a programming language which is simple, but also allows the creation of desktop applications/GUIs....otherwise i could just write in PHP etc. but then there is limits since its all browser based)

I am looking at Python right now (which looks quite good)...am i right that there is frameworks which also allow to build GUIs?

Another option would be Adobe Air.

(Although i am put off since i see how incredible slow Market Samurai is)

Do you have any recommendations for a simple programming language?

G.