Ah, but Knuth's Literate Programming isn't a self documenting language; it's a means to integrate the documentation source with the code source and get well formatted text out of it. You still need to write the documentation before web can format it.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 11:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Old Code Gets Younger Every Year - Marianne Bellotti - Medium On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 15:46:48 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Ultimately it's a management issue common to all languages: if programmers are >not required to document and to keep documentation up to date, or, worse, are >prohibited from "wasting time" doing so, there will be downstream >consequences. In the case of COBOL there is also the pernicious myth that it >is self documenting - no language is. > https://secure-web.cisco.com/1-JhToiJrx436ImEyAvJ7oCrY0ES7gy9ZRAvC_aqO2TcpRgdX0RqD_OS9Fj9cG8V2HyMYtRitabX4WQK-dZMSpHDv2kUeBb2TPjoG0bo6Sdb-LNNAwWr6fARyTVE0FKb73bTzj_s2lu7xKvf5Bo87hlvM9z-jd3zFbazs6KXnf1qLtZg0qDbX4I5eDpANZUycd_7LGnxzzWrHe2aQZ9dEsQ3EASRvFv13Xs5IaFzIJkn4DmsMI4jU4IlVct6vthxdFUK7JS1Y3RQG2-OAD1pANe7v8i5T8yc7fZY20sNoR-7YnbZoHINpxVM1JqxlINvWwKZTkSCnKGP03GBRJ6q5Cvoj0a88HYeumT1yVOfXBtwpj8kGIhRJaC15IZOG1BVLCYPvfmoLb-ekiEGguymkrIWbq4_6x3HL2WJBdBD2VmUpv8TEPbQiEQNpAS-AYkcZ/https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWeb_%28programming_system%29 >BTW, is there any shop still using CODASYL COBOL? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
