You're right, I should have mentioned org-babel as the closest thing to something that would work for me. However, as soon as I start using noweb syntax for "o

You're right, I should have mentioned org-babel as the closest thing to something that would work for me. However, as soon as I start using noweb syntax for "out of order" programming, I stumble into long standing bugs (references are not always found, links in the tangled code are broken, detangling does not work, etc...)