[seanmcdirmid]

What else is there to say? Visual-enhanced programming environments are quite comment, to varying degrees of visualness. Heck, MS even once put out something called Visual C++ that was not very visual at all (beyond the IDE being a graphical application). The spectrum is so large, that it is not really useful as a label, you have to compare the programming experiences directly.

As for visual languages, that is whole different kettle of fishies not appropriate for this submission.

[vegggdor]

I was wondering about your comment on quartz composer, before I noticed that "cisual" is a typo ... I started out on Visual Basic, it certainly helped to lower the barrier to entry a little bit. In the end it was all source text, with helpful library component selection (the timer function had an image of a clock) and ui layout editing.