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First instinct was to compare against websites of other programming languages, and (despite the poor choice of mascot) it occurs to me that I'm not really sure what a good programming language website would look like...

Ruby: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ (points for having sample code obviously placed!)

Python: http://www.python.org/

Haskell: http://www.haskell.org/

Erlang: http://erlang.org/

Perl5: http://www.perl.org/

PHP: http://www.php.net/

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I think the inspiration was at least partially in Smalltalk, which also has a recurring child-friendly theme. For example:

http://www.squeak.org/

points for having sample code obviously placed!

Cheers to that! Every programming language home page should have a quick way of getting to simple sample code. Erlang does a decent job of this: "Getting Started" -> "Getting started quickly" gives you source right away. Most P/L sites do not make it easy to find a code sample.

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