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Congratulations Lea Verou and MIT CSAIL!

I'm curious about if you've done any research with this experiment yet and if so where can I find it? I'm very curious on ways to make programming more friendly/approachable, but I have found very little research that even begins to examine what a friendly/approachable programming language would even look like.

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Yup, we have! Here's the paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2984551 and here's an open version: http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Papers/mavo.pdf Look at the References and you'll find more :) There's a whole area of research about end-user programming, though it doesn't usually involve languages, but more GUIs.

Thanks so much. Yeah, I was specifically looking for research related to programming languages, but I'll give it a look. Good luck! Thanks for putting this out and helping slowly chip at the divide between consumers and creators in computing today.

Well done!

This has great potential to democratize the building of simple website applications for the masses. Great concept so far!

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