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> Literate programming… didn't catch on I would argue literate programming is experiencing a renaissance, thanks to docco: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco

• pjmlp 13y ago
  Not really, I never heard of docco and am yet to see a RFP for a node.js project from my employer's enterprise customers.
  • vidarh 13y ago
    Chances are much higher that you've seen the output of Docco or one of the multitude of imitations for other languages.
• e12e 13y ago
  I think literate coffeescript might be a better example of popularizing literate programming: http://ashkenas.com/literate-coffeescript/ http://ashkenas.com/literate-coffeescript/ There also seems to be some traction for literate Haskell: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Literate_programming http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Literate_programming I experimented a bit with literate programming on an introductory course in programming using java. It's an interesting experience -- it's very easy to produce a very readable language that is still pretty poor java code, as it becomes so easy to split out fragments and "procedures", rather than follow the more common java class-oriented object orientated way of doing things.