[leaverou]

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.

[RubenSandwich]

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.

[canada_dry]

Well done!

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