Scratch is a visual programming language, but it might usefully have a textual version as well. Scratch in it’s graphical form can verify syntax intuitively & automatically, and the resulting graphics are definitely beautiful, but it took quite some effort to produce these diagrams when trying to document a program, and it is even harder to reference sections of the diagram.
This activity came out of producing a Scratch Player in Flash, and I wanted to see whether the parse of the file produced the correct program. A textual dump of the parse was an obvious solution, but then this ‘dump’ might as well be the same as a complete program declaration so it was clearly ‘complete’ and I wasn’t missing anything.
