Golang is not what Knuth has in mind. Literate programming is primarily long explanatory comments written around code snippets in a narrative form. Such that yo

Golang is not what Knuth has in mind. Literate programming is primarily long explanatory comments written around code snippets in a narrative form. Such that you could sit down and read a whole listing as you would a book. When I interviewed Knuth in 2008 [1], we discussed the failure of literate programming. As you'd expect, he was realistic about the reasons. (About half way down the page) [1] http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856