The bottom line on Knuth's literate programming idea: establishing an across the board equivalence between the usage narrative and the code, is that this is an idea that applies about equally well ...

*The world is a place of many paths not-taken. Donald Knuth. "Literate Programming (1984)" in Literate Programming. CSLI, 1992, pg. 99. I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better ...

When I first read about literate programming, my very first instinct said: “nope, not doing that.” Donald Knuth, who is no small name in computing, proposes a new way of doing things in his ...

Classically, a literate programming system combines a programming language like C with a typesetting language like TeX. To create documentation, you filter the code out of the source files.

On a visit to London, Professor Donald Knuth gives a rare video interview to ZDNet UK about the past, present and future of computing ...

Literate programming, which Knuth proposed 10 years ago, leads to "beautiful", concise and less error-prone programs that can deal with massively complex problems that are hard or impossible to do ...

The source code is well, over 1,000 but that’s because of the literate programming comments. The fancy title comments are about half as large as the actual compiler.