On Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 2:57:25 PM UTC-6 Félix wrote: I also struggled a bit to write a concise and short explanation of what Leo is/does in the text introductions I wrote for LeoInteg and LeoJS...
... the way I resume Leo as briefly as I can at the top of the readme for those projects is : *Literate Programming with Directed Acyclic Graphs (dag)Break your code down into sections structured as an outline, to derive or parse back your filesLeo is a fundamentally different way of using and organizing data, programs and scripts.* ... and in the 'welcome screen' of LeoInteg I wrote: *Use Leo, the Literate Editor with Outlines, to program with directed acyclic graphs, along with section-references, @others, and clones.* Thanks, Félix, for these descriptions. I don't usually refer to literate programming (LP) when talking about Leo because some people have had negative opinions about LP. Perhaps those opinions have changed. Yes, there was lots to admire about LP ca. 1985. But imo Leo redefines LP: - First, I dislike the narrative model of documentation. Imo, documentation is a reference, not a novel. - Second, outline nodes provide space for as many comments, literate or not, as anyone could want. - Third, outline structure plus clones is better than any index. Also, Leo isn't an acronym, although sometimes I say it means Leonine editor with outlines :-) Otoh, your description is accurate and concise. You may have a better sense of whether LP has become a bad word :-) Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/9bd3f0de-f85e-4161-9d8a-42b309d0a4f2n%40googlegroups.com.
