The interview I mentioned last week, between Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth included this bit about literate programming: Andrew: One of the few projects of yours that hasn't been embraced by a ...

Most of today's software is buggy because not everyone has converted to literate programming, Donald Knuth, author of the work on algorithmic analysis, The Art of Computer Programming and the TeX ...

Are you writing your code for humans or computers? I wasn’t there, but my guess is that at the dawn of computing, people thought that they were writing for the machines. After all, they were writing ...

Software, the sages tell us, should be written primarily for other humans to read and only incidentally for machines to read. I could not agree more. However, as most developers will tell you, project ...

During a recent company hackathon, my team’s charter was to improve the documentation for the Steampipe plugin SDK. Like other components of the Steampipe system, the plugin SDK is written in Go and ...

Literate is a VS Code extension that automatically generates comprehensive documentation for your code. It adapts to your skill level and provides explanations that range from beginner-friendly to ...

This document summarizes the features of a highly customized Literate Programming IDE built using Emacs Lisp and Emacs Org Mode. If you are a programmer, please open the accompanying ide.org file on ...

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