I didn't actually quite present them as a dichotomy. My point was a bit subtler than that in my opinion. In fact it was less about the practice of literate prog

I didn't actually quite present them as a dichotomy. My point was a bit subtler than that in my opinion. In fact it was less about the practice of literate programming than problems of context in many programming languages. An aspect I didn't discuss is that when we write in English the usefulness of the text is then subject to the ability of the author to write clear, logical, concise (hopefully beautiful & elegant) English. So it's not surprising, to me at least, that the best literate programs I've read are not online but in books.