April 26, 2008

Literate programming

Filed under: news, reviews — Peter @ 5:45 pm

I was reading this interview with Donald Knuth and “literate programming” was mentioned. I went to their site and this is what explained to me what it’s about:

Instead of writing code containing documentation, the literate programmer writes documentation containing code.

Suddenly I realized: that’s it! That’s what I’ve been trying to do in the wiki. It should be text illustrated with code not vice versa. Interesting…

 

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