Re: more on hackerlab strings

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:29:35PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> I happen to _really_ like _most_ aspects of the markup language of
> that little mess of a doc-extraction system.  There are a few aspects
> of it that are totally wrong.
> 
> My hope is to proceed this way:
> 
>   ~ suffer along with the systas dependency and other quirks for 
>     now
> 
>   ~ finish Pika to a level of R5RS + Posix + Rx (regexps)
> 
>   ~ port the doc system to Pika and clean it up
> 
> If Pika comes out nicely, and the doc system can be cleaned up and
> documented, among other nice side effects this would result in a nice
> little demo app.  It'd be nice to get it shippable in a form that is
> as easy to use as doxy and needs no particular attention to the fact
> it's written in Scheme.
> 


ok. sounds like a nice plan to me. count on me to lend a hand when time
comes (i've always been interested in doc generators and literate
programming thingies).

jao