Please see my comment on Free Pascal. From your comments, I suspect this is what you may like. There is a huge culture (anti-curly-braces culture, by the way) behind it: Algol, then Wirth's Pascal, Modula, Ada (most important step), Borland's Turbo Pascal, Object Pascal, Delphi (major .NET predecessor, by the way) and, finally, modern open-source, multi-platform Free Pascal, with RAD and multi-platform UI. There are many highly qualified and cultured developers using such tools and the language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal[
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http://www.freepascal.org/[
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IDE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_%28IDE%29[
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http://www.lazarus-ide.org/[
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Please don't take me wrong: I also hate those '{ }' and a lot many other things; and I understand the need for much clearer syntax, so what?
Worst thing you can do is going for Basic syntax. Even though VB.NET became a decent language, it's for .NET, which you may not like. Worse, serious programmers don't take VB programmers seriously. And Basic will hardly be officially standardized, even if the reasons can be considered as social. It was created as a mercy to the amateur developers (or make a trap for them), and, despite its progress, will hardly be fully respected, fairly or not. Besides, if you lean something seriously, you will probably understand that Basic is nothing really good.
As to BASIC, I think it's useful to read this:
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
See: How do we tell truths that might hurt?.
—SA