kouPhax

SmallBasic by Microsoft. It is intended to provide a foundational understanding of programming. Comes with a nice kid friendly IDE

http://smallbasic.com/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx

They "shouldn't" be, but more often than not they are. At least in my experience of try to introduce people to new languages/technologies.

That may be but it doesn't stop the clojure code looking messy IMHO. Feels less structured (again IMHO)

Not a massive fan of clojures syntax though - that example is like bracket city!