<s>
Hy	B-Language
is	O
a	O
dialect	O
of	O
the	O
Lisp	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
designed	O
to	O
interact	O
with	O
Python	B-Language
by	O
translating	O
s-expressions	B-Protocol
into	O
Python	B-Language
's	O
abstract	B-Data_Structure
syntax	I-Data_Structure
tree	I-Data_Structure
(	O
AST	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hy	B-Language
was	O
introduced	O
at	O
Python	B-Language
Conference	I-Language
(	O
PyCon	B-Language
)	O
2013	O
by	O
Paul	O
Tagliamonte	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lisp	B-Language
allows	O
operating	O
on	O
code	O
as	O
data	O
(	O
metaprogramming	B-Application
)	O
,	O
thus	O
Hy	B-Language
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
write	O
domain-specific	B-Language
languages	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Similar	O
to	O
Kawa	B-Language
's	O
and	O
Clojure	B-Language
's	O
mappings	O
onto	O
the	O
Java	B-Language
virtual	I-Language
machine	I-Language
(	O
JVM	B-Language
)	O
,	O
Hy	B-Language
is	O
meant	O
to	O
operate	O
as	O
a	O
transparent	O
Lisp	B-Language
front-end	O
for	O
Python	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
allows	O
Python	B-Language
libraries	B-Library
,	O
including	O
the	O
standard	B-Library
library	I-Library
,	O
to	O
be	O
imported	O
and	O
accessed	O
alongside	O
Hy	B-Language
code	O
with	O
a	O
compiling	B-Language
step	O
where	O
both	O
languages	O
are	O
converted	O
into	O
Python	B-Language
's	O
AST	O
.	O
</s>
