Ly, the lyterate programming thingy / News: Recent posts

The first somewhat documented version of Ly, the 'lyterate programming thingy,' has been released. Ly is a Python-based engine for literate programming which aims for an elegant source code that is close to the produced HTML. The distinguishing feature of Ly is that it recognizes code through indentation-- indented paragraphs are code, non-indented paragraphs are documentation. This means that writing Ly files is quick, there are no strange characters as chunk delimiters in the source, and both source and woven HTML give the impression of a text with code snippets inserted into it (just as literate programming should be ;-)).... read more