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Great work. In the preface the author states > At present, people in China are already organizing human annotations to publish books similar to this article.
by Jach 8y ago
Great work. In the preface the author states
> At present, people in China are already
organizing human annotations to publish books similar to this article.
Maybe Chinese programmers will herald an increase in literate programming? Seems like a lot of effort could be saved in back-annotating by just starting the program as a literate one in the first place...
- htfy96 8y agoI think the prevalence of book of commented sources in China partly comes from the way that Chinese big companies interview people - asking a lot of implementation details (especially for DBs), even though in most cases that is useless in daily work (similar to Leetcode questions in US interviews). IMO, literate programming sounds more like software development in Japan, where big companies engineers write high-level specification, then the 1st outsource company models class hierarchy, followed by the 2nd outsource company writing function declarations and comments, eventually implemented by the 3rd outsource company.
- Jach 8y agoHere's my favorite example of a literate program: http://www.pbr-book.org/ http://www.pbr-book.org/ I don't see how such a thing could be constructed using that Japanese way. Though I'm not sure how any software could be constructed in that Japanese way. ;)