In his latest column for the SDTimes, Larry O'Brien (knowing.net) test drives the latest release candidate of Inference for .NET:

http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33233

Larry writes:

Inference for .NET is a tool for literate programming using .NET dynamic languages and Microsoft Office. In modern terms, literate programming is a mashup of programming and word processing (or spreadsheet processing). The presentation and formatting tools of Word or Excel can be used to explain code snippets, or the code can be unwoven from the document and executed.

Literate programming naturally appeals to writers, and with the rise of blogs and wikis, it seems like something whose time has come. On the other hand, nothing is as humbling as memorializing your shortcuts, inefficiencies and general shiftlessness on a function-by-function basis (at least such is my experience. It might be different for the talented).

We've had a lot of feedback from users regarding using Inference for .NET as a tool for literate programming – it's definitely one of the more popular uses. Literate programming clearly works best in Inference in Word, although we've had numerous requests to implement similar functionality in PowerPoint. Trust me, we're working on it. J