Whither Literate Programming (1)

Bob Myers
6 min readAug 31, 2018

It’s been more than three decades since literate programming was invented by the legendary Donald Knuth. Its promise was immense — creating software which was more reliable, more understandable, more maintainable, and with hugely more teaching value — software which targeted both humans and computers.

What is literate programming? How has literate programming evolved? Why hasn’t literate programming taken…

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