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Ask HN: Literate Programming

2 points by dimitar 17y ago

What do you think about literate programming? Does anyone here use this approach?

mooism2 17y ago
I like it in theory, but I'm no good at it in practice. But then I am no good at commenting in general. One of the reasons I am trying literate programming is that I hope it will prod me to explain my code more. So far I only seem to use more headings to break up my code, but this is still an improvement.
- dimitar 17y ago
  What do you use for literate programming? CWEB?
  - mooism2 17y ago
    I write bird code style literate haskell, and use pandoc to turn source files into web pages.
michael_dorfman 17y ago
I like very much reading Literate programs, but I don't seem to write them myself. Then again, I like very much reading novels, and I don't write those either.