Since it may not be entirely clear from the title:
- Inform is a language for writing interactive fiction. Inform 7, the current version, is also a really fascinating declarative programming language. Its quasi-English look appears to be just syntactic sugar at first glance, but there's more going on than you might think.
- Even if you're not interested in interactive fiction, per se, this is a really good, thoughtful presentation on programming languages in general from Inform's creator, who is a mathematics fellow at Oxford and an award-winning poet. (It is not surprising at all that he appears to be friends with Donald Knuth.)
- Inform is a language for writing interactive fiction. Inform 7, the current version, is also a really fascinating declarative programming language. Its quasi-English look appears to be just syntactic sugar at first glance, but there's more going on than you might think.
- Even if you're not interested in interactive fiction, per se, this is a really good, thoughtful presentation on programming languages in general from Inform's creator, who is a mathematics fellow at Oxford and an award-winning poet. (It is not surprising at all that he appears to be friends with Donald Knuth.)