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I seem to remember older programming languages (COBOL?) being far closer to English-as-spoken as they are today, using, for example Do/END instead of today’s mo

• Roboprog 8y ago
  Literate programming has next to nothing to do with “English like grammars” or “self documenting” tongue twister symbol table names. It has to do with writing documentation, and embedding little bits of code to do what the documentation describes, with a special build process to create the compiled program from the snippets within the documentation. It’s kind of the inverse of Javadoc.