Whither Literate Programming (2) — What went wrong?

Bob Myers
11 min readSep 3, 2018

What is literate programming? How has literate programming evolved? Why hasn’t literate programming taken off? Where is it headed?

In the first article in this three part series, we addressed the first of these questions, learning about what literate programming is, something of its history, and the great promise it holds. Let us recall the definition of literate programming:

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