As described previously, there is a popular (and to some extent deserved) perception that VHDL is hard to learn and use.
While it is true that VHDL is a big and complex language, there is certainly no need to learn all of its features before beginning with your first few designs.
VisualHDL is an integrated development environment (IDE) rapid design for FPGAs.
It is based on THDL++ - a C++-like language with fully paralell VHDL semantics.
It allows developing fully parallel FPGA designs having the flexibility, modularity and maintainability of C++ code.