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Comment on Show HN: Goboscript, text-based programming language, compiles to Scratch

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This is hilarious because it defeats the purpose of scratch.

On the contrary. I think it is an excellent bridge between visual and text-oriented programming. It also introduces concepts we take for granted elsewhere: return values from functions, text-based macro substitution, local variables, structs and enums.

Tell me more about scratch's purpose, please. I believe it's to teach programming. GoboScript seems a natural extension of already conventional environment to more "real" textual programming tasks.

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