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The core software distribution for the Inform 7 programming language.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2022-04-28 · latest 2025-12-07

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  1. …mentioned in the article: Inform 7. (a natural language, interactive fiction programming language) https://github.com/ganelson/inform From the README "Inform is itself a literate program (written with inweb), one of the largest in the…
    comment by ChristopherDrum · 2025-12-07 · in What is “literate programming”? (2024)
  2. Inform 7's source code is published under the Artistic License 2.0 these days: https://github.com/ganelson/inform/blob/master/LICENSE
    comment by mintplant · 2025-07-07 · in Lessons from creating my first text adventure
  3. The github repo from the slides as it's not a link in the article: https://github.com/ganelson/inform
    comment by ralferoo · 2022-08-24 · in The Futures of Inform
  4. Did you know Inform is now (finally) open source?! https://github.com/ganelson/inform
    comment by hwayne · 2022-07-13 · in Six programming languages I’d like to see
  5. …how it is actually used—and where you tend to end up with `main` at the bottom of the file 1. < https://github.com/ganelson/inform/blob/e723c36deef41bea793a... > 2. < http://akkartik.name/post/literate-programming > 3. <…
    comment by cxr · 2022-05-11 · in Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source
  6. …out that Inform, one of the largest literate programs to date, was recently published on GitHub. https://github.com/ganelson/inform
    comment by ChristopherDrum · 2022-05-08 · in Donald Knuth was framed (2020)
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    Inform 7 is now open source
    story by abzug · 2022-04-29 · 1 comment
  8. I agree with you on that slide, but now that we have the full source, here's a random file from it: https://github.com/ganelson/inform/blob/master/inform7/imper... This comment style seems pretty reasonable and informative.
    comment by KerrAvon · 2022-04-28 · in Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source
  9. …I'm so happy to hear that problem has finally been solved! It's under the Artistic License 2.0: https://github.com/ganelson/inform
    comment by kragen · 2022-04-28 · in Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source