Nick - planning (in progress)

Goal: Design and implement a domain specific programming language for the creation of interactive literature.

Steps:

• [ ] what are we even doing? we should define that.
• [ ] create a grammar
  • (what do I want people to type/write? how to parse it? what are the capabilities of the language? What's built in?
• [ ] write a parser
• [ ] write a (trans)compiler
  • ideally, I would like to interface with python so that the final compiled application can be easily hosted on the internet via Flask/Javascript.

Thoughts:

Dynamic/interpreted languages tend to be easier for beginners to work with, so it probably makes sense to have the language be interpreted/REPL'd for ease of use by beginner programmers.

Knuth introduced the concept of literate programming a while ago, increasing readability and similarity to spoken/read english using some of the literate programming concepts might also increase usability by newcomers