In my mind, the ideal way to accomplish this would be: - Encode the program in a data format like JSON or XML. Ideally, this should be readable (though verbose

In my mind, the ideal way to accomplish this would be: - Encode the program in a data format like JSON or XML. Ideally, this should be readable (though verbose) on its own. - Create an IDE that renders the JSON/XML using the typographical stylistic flourishes, and that possibly allows the definition of new styled "blocks". This could even be done with CSS. Creating a language that is sufficiently connected to its IDE that it can define new syntax highlighting, autocompletion, etc. in the code itself would go a long way toward making something like this practical. DrRacket (http://racket-lang.org/ http://racket-lang.org/) sort of does this already; it even has image literals!