That was exactly my line of thinking, too: Imaging you have written you literate program using all those literate-macros and TANGLE and WEAVE. If you're using a

That was exactly my line of thinking, too: Imaging you have written you literate program using all those literate-macros and TANGLE and WEAVE. If you're using a sufficiently powerful language, you can replace all your literate-macros with native language constructs. That's why I never really felt the urge for those lterate-macros. Moreover, I'm usually going into the opposite direction, writing LP programs that depend on as few tools as possible. For example, I wrote a LaTeX file that is also a valid shell script, executing the build instructions section when called from shell. I named this experiment "Self-contained Literate Programming": http://www.profv.de/literate-programming/ http://www.profv.de/literate-programming/