Teaching Programming

[Stefan Behnel]

Ed Keith, 04.05.2010 14:15:
> I wrote AsciiLitProg (http://asciilitprog.berlios.de/) in Python. It is
> a literate programming tool. It generates code from a document. It can
> generate code in any language the author wants. It would have been a LOT
> easier to write if it did not generate Python code.
>
> Python is a great language to write in (although I do wish it did a
> better job with closures). But it is a PITA to generate code for!

Interesting. Could you elaborate a bit? Could you give a short example of 
what kind of document text you translate into what kind of Python code, and 
what the problems were that you faced in doing so?

Stefan