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1.4 +Introduction
1.5 +============
1.6 +
1.7 +Lichen is a Python-like language and toolchain. The language foregoes various
1.8 +dynamic aspects of Python to provide a foundation upon which more predictable
1.9 +programs can be built, while preserving essential functionality to make the
1.10 +core of the language seem very much like Python. The general syntax is largely
1.11 +identical to Python, with only certain syntactic constructs being unsupported.
1.12 +
1.13 +The toolchain employs existing tokeniser and parser software to obtain an
1.14 +abstract syntax tree which is then inspected to provide data to support
1.15 +deductions about the structure and nature of a given program. With the
1.16 +information obtained from these processes, a program is then constructed,
1.17 +consisting of a number of source files in the target compilation language
1.18 +(which is currently the C programming language). This generated program may be
1.19 +compiled and run, hopefully producing the intended results.
1.20 +
1.21 +Contact, Copyright and Licence Information
1.22 +==========================================
1.23 +
1.24 +See the following Web pages for more information about this work:
1.25 +
1.26 +http://projects.boddie.org.uk/Lichen
1.27 +
1.28 +The author can be contacted at the following e-mail address:
1.29 +
1.30 +paul@boddie.org.uk
1.31 +
1.32 +Copyright and licence information can be found in the docs directory - see
1.33 +docs/COPYING.txt and docs/gpl-3.0.txt for more information.