I looked at org-mode. Note that 'literate programming' involves writing literature for other people to read. The executable code is included as a 'reduction to practice' but the emphasis is on describing the ideas. Rich has some powerful ideas that he has reduced to running code. What we need to do is start with a description of the ideas and bridge the gap to the actual implementation.
Ideally you can read a literate program like a novel, from beginning to end, and find that every line of code has a 'motivation' for being introduced. The side-effect is that there is a reason why the idea is implemented in a particular way rather than 'just because it worked'. Literate programming tends to improve code quality because you have to explain it. Emacs org-mode, on the other hand, is a useful development technology but it really isn't literate programming. Tim Daly On 1/4/2011 9:34 AM, Seth wrote:
have you guys checked out org-mode + babel for emacs? This would be an excellent place to start to do literate programming. Interesting ideas ... maybe i will try this in my own code ...
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