Experimenting with possible designs of a programming language for kids. A strange experience after years of working on Bel. But it is useful to know precisely what Lisp features you're discarding — to know where the rungs of the ladder are.
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Which Lisp features are you considering discarding?
Practically all of them, but everything being an expression feels the most significant. There will be a distinction between expressions and statements. Which is gross, but it will be easier to get started.
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Wow I would have thought this would have been the keeper. In my experience with kiddos (middle school teacher) there is a spectrum of ability to deal with abstraction. Purpose built but general purpose languages (postscript, autolisp, emacs lisp) not a fan of scratch but close
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Something that looks like basic but that translates to lisp, a bit like coffeescript to javascript might be interesting?
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Statements rely on external state for composition, so the challenge is a state model that's intuitive and general. Logo turtles were great for (only) the first. Maybe stacks will help, as in Forth or Push (made for different purposes: http://pushlanguage.org )
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