[dkersten]

When I used Max/MSP a few years ago, a lot of people's code snippets looked like this, however, an important thing to remember is that the target audience for most visual programming tools are not trained software engineers -- ie they don't know about encapsulation and abstraction and all of the other concepts we take for granted.

I found Max/MSP code could look extremely tidy, as I would group my functionality together in a similar way as I would in a textual language (short single-purpose functions and such). You can write horrible spaghetti code messes in textual languages too, its just we've used enough textual languages to have learned how to abstract our code and how to organise it for maintainability. Its not an inherent feature.