I think that's the point of literate programming. You no longer have to keep it all in your head. You have an article or a book. You go to the chapter that inte

I think that's the point of literate programming. You no longer have to keep it all in your head. You have an article or a book. You go to the chapter that interests you, and modify it. Now those modifications get scattered throughout the monolith. The point of literate programming is that you have a text which is structured in a way that humans are good at dealing with, which is not some nifty mathematical abstraction like functional or oop code nor coherent modules. (Having worked with a badly structured monolith with a mixture of literal code and a million bad abstractions, I must admit the simplicity of working with the used-once literal code has its advantages. But so does the more abstract code. The only thing I know is that I want to control my entry point rather than go via a framework and suffer my concrete classes getting upcasted.)