Interestingly, the author of Pollen attempted to write it in Pollen first, then switched to Racket. > “I wrote the initial version of Pollen in Python. I devis

Interestingly, the author of Pollen attempted to write it in Pollen first, then switched to Racket. > “I wrote the initial version of Pollen in Python. I devised a simplified markup-notation language for the source files. This language was compiled into XML-ish data structures using ply (Python lex/yacc). These structures were parsed into trees using LXML. The trees were combined with templates made in Chameleon. These templates were rendered and previewed with the Bottle web server. > “Did it work? Sort of. Source code went in; web pages came out. But it was also complicated and fragile. Moreover, though the automation was there, there wasn’t yet enough abstraction at the source layer. I started thinking about how I could add a source preprocessor.” [1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/Backstory.html#%28part._.Rethinking_the_solution_for_digital_books%29 https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/Backstory.html#%28part._...