Teaching Programming

[Stefan Behnel]

Ed Keith, 04.05.2010 15:19:
> --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Ed Keith, 04.05.2010 14:15:
>>> 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?
>
> The program is written using itself. If you click on the link above you
> will see an HTML file that fully describes the program.

I did. I find it a bit hard to read due to the block splitting (basically 
like 'include' based spaghetti programming), but so far, the actual code 
that does the code merging looks pretty simple and I can't figure out where 
the "PITA" bit is on that page. That's why I asked.

Stefan