Little Coder problem = how to get people interested in coding by writing little programs. Hard to do on consoles and iPhones.

I started thinking that if I was going to get people interested in coding, I'd start with something more approachable - maybe something like a subset of Python, Java, Ruby or even JavaScript (it's where so many people write little programs anyway now). I heard Lua mentioned as a good scripting language too.

Then I wondered - is this CPU a reasonable target for those kinds of little languages? Is this a way to be language independent and have them all? If so, why not something more like the JVM to make it easy?

It seems to me that coding for this CPU is more like a mini-game in the main game; the fact that it's a challenge is part of the game.