wisp
 
(Arne Babenhauserheide)
2013-04-28: Worked on the readme.

Worked on the readme.

diff --git a/Readme.txt b/Readme.txt
--- a/Readme.txt
+++ b/Readme.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
-Wisp: Whitespace-Lisp
-=====================
+Wisp: Whitespace to Lisp
+========================
+
+    defun a : b c
+      let
+        : d e
+          : f
+            ' g
+        h i
+        . j
+
+becomes
 
     (defun a (b c)
       (let 
@@ -9,18 +19,10 @@ Wisp: Whitespace-Lisp
       (h i)
       j))
 
-becomes
 
-    defun a (b c)
-      let
-        : 
-          d e
-          : 
-            f
-            ' g
-        h i
-        . j
+Wisp turns indentation based syntax into Lisp. The conversion is homoiconic[^h], generic[^g], and backwards-compatible[^b]. It is inspired by project readable, but tries to keep itself simple (and stupid: just a preprocessor). More information on the [wisp-website][].
 
+[wisp-website]: http://draketo.de/light/english/wisp-lisp-indentation-preprocessor
 
 Usage: ./wisp.py infile.wisp > outfile.lisp
 
@@ -36,3 +38,13 @@ Or with bash, extend this to a multiline
 
 (finish the input with CTRL-D)
 (Note: IFS= ensures that initial blanks are kept)
+
+Also see `./wisp-multiline.sh --help`
+
+License: GPLv3 or later.
+
+[^h]: Wisp is homoiconic because everything you write gets turned into lisp which is homoiconic.
+
+[^g]: Wisp is generic, because it works for any language which uses brackets to start a function call - which is true for most lisps. You simply get rid of the speerwall of parentheses without losing their power.
+
+[^b]: Wisp is backwards compatible, because you can simply use arbitrary lisp code in wisp: Indentation processing skipps expressions in brackets.