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Title: Inform: The Program
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Author: Graham Nelson
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@ Inform is a programming language used for interactive fiction and other creative
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purposes. For user documentation, and downloads of the apps, go to the Inform home page
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at: http://www.inform7.com
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Most users engage with Inform as an app on their devices: there are apps
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for MacOS, Windows, Linux and Android, but in the centre of each is the same
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core compiler and software. This website is part of the Github repository for
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that core, which is written as a "literate program", meaning that it is compiled
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both to a "woven", human-readable version as well as a "tangled",
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computer-executable version. You are now reading the woven version. For more on
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literate programming, go to the tool used by the Inform project: //inweb//
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Like all complex software systems, Inform is an assemblage of many individual
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programs, images, PDF files, sets of test cases, documentation, and so on.
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This page is intended as a jumping-off point for browsing the source code and
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technical documentation: it doesn't list every last thing.
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(*) At the heart of Inform are the first four links below, making up its main
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compiler. See //structure// for how they fit together.
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(*) Several important //kits// and //extensions// used by Inform are also written as
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literate programs.
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= (html panels_tools.html)
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