Less

Less is a stylesheet language created in 2009 by Alexis Sellier.

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Less (sometimes stylized as LESS) is a dynamic style sheet language that can be compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and run on the client side or server side. Designed by Alexis Sellier, Less is influenced by Sass and has influenced the newer "SCSS" syntax of Sass, which adapted its CSS-like block formatting syntax. Less is open source. Read more on Wikipedia...

Less website
Less Wikipedia page
There are at least 12,105 Less repos on GitHub
Less first developed in https://github.com/less
file extensions for Less include less
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 2k users using Less in 3k repos on GitHub
ANTLR grammar for Less
Monaco package for syntax highlighting Less
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Less
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Less
lesscss.org was registered in 2009
See also: (5 related languages)JavaScript, Sass, CSS, Ruby, Stylus
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Example from Riju:

body:before {
  content: "Hello, world!";
}

Example from hello-world:

body::before {
    content: "Hello World"
}

Example from Linguist:

@blue: #3bbfce;
@margin: 16px;

.content-navigation {
  border-color: @blue;
  color:
    darken(@blue, 9%);
}

.border {
  padding: @margin / 2;
  margin: @margin / 2;
  border-color: @blue;
}

Example from Wikipedia:

#header {
  color: #333333;
  border-left: 1px;
  border-right: 3px;
}
#footer {
  color: #114411;
  border-color: #7d2717;
}

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
Comments	✓		// A comment
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* */	/* A comment */
Line Comments	✓	//	// A comment

title	authors	year	publisher
Manipulation Secrets: How To Manipulate Anyone In Less Than Five Minutes Using Speed Reading, Ethical Manipulation And Simple Mind Control Techniques ... Case Studies And DIY-Tests (DARK PSYCHOLOGY)	Lightman, Patrick	2019	Independently published
Game Development Patterns and Best Practices: Better games, less hassle	Doran, John P. and Casanova, Matt	2017	Packt Publishing
How to Connect in Business in 90 Seconds or Less	Boothman, Nicholas	2002	Workman Publishing Company
Metaprogramming Elixir: Write Less Code, Get More Done (and Have Fun!)	McCord, Chris	2015	Pragmatic Bookshelf
OGRE 3D 1.7 Beginner's Guide (Learn by Doing: Less Theory, More Results)	Felix Kerger	2010	Packt Publishing
The Science of Strategic Conservation: Protecting More with Less	Messer, Kent D. and Allen III, William L.	2018	Cambridge University Press
How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less	Boothman, Nicholas	2004	Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Publications about Less from Semantic Scholar

title	authors	year	citations	influentialCitations
tinySLAM: A SLAM algorithm in less than 200 lines C-language program	B. Steux and O. Hamzaoui	2010	79	7
How to make ad hoc proof automation less ad hoc	Georges Gonthier and Beta Ziliani and Aleksandar Nanevski and Derek Dreyer	2011	64	3
Pair Programming: More Learning And Less Anxiety In A First Programming Course	Jennifer Brougham and S. Freeman and Beverly K. Jaeger	2003	20	0

Less - Stylesheet language

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Publications about Less from Semantic Scholar