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Literate Programming and the WEB System
Knuth invented literate programming in order to explain and publish his programs in articles and books
Characteristics of literate programming:
Detachment of
program explanation structure
from
program structure
The
proximity
between program fragments and their explanations
The pieces of program 'live in' the documentation
The opposite approach of conventional program commenting
Literate programming is typically supported by tools in the WEB-family
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