Beyond any educational benefit, what do you see as the advantages of programming in this way? For me, literate programming has been exceptional for organi

Beyond any educational benefit, what do you see as the advantages of programming in this way? For me, literate programming has been exceptional for organizing my thoughts, and preventing me from thinking myself in loops, or hitting a wall of decision paralysis. Being able to express what I'm trying to do in English, Spanish, Mandarin, etc., is a prerequisite to being able to express it in Ruby, Python, or CoffeeScript.