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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Called CodeH S, the company, co-founded by two recent Stanford University graduates, aims to provide online programming classes in high schools.