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@settitle Concise Common Workflow Language

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This manual documents the development version of @abbr{ccwl, Concise
Common Workflow Language}, a concise syntax to express @abbr{CWL, Common
Workflow Language} workflows.

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* Introduction:: What is ccwl?
* Contributing:: Contributing
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@node Introduction
@chapter Introduction

@abbr{CWL, Common Workflow Language} is an open standard for describing
analysis workflows and tools in a way that makes them portable and
scalable across a variety of software and hardware environments.

@abbr{ccwl, Concise Common Workflow Language} is a concise syntax to
express CWL workflows. It is implemented as an @abbr{EDSL, Embedded
Domain Specific Language} in the Scheme programming language, a
minimalist dialect of the Lisp family of programming languages.

ccwl is a compiler to generate CWL workflows from concise descriptions
in ccwl. In the future, ccwl will also have a runtime whereby users can
interactively execute workflows while developing them.

@node Contributing
@chapter Contributing

ccwl is developed on GitHub at
@url{https://github.com/arunisaac/ccwl}. Feedback, suggestions, feature
requests, bug reports and pull requests are all welcome. Unclear and
unspecific error messages are considered a bug. Do report them!

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