Understanding Literate Programming with 'Literate' Tool by zyedidia
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Summary
Literate programming is a style of programming where code is written primarily for human understanding before computer execution. The tool 'Literate' by zyedidia facilitates this approach for any programming language.
Key quotes
· 2 pulledLiterate programming is a style of programming invented by Donald Knuth, where the main idea is that a program's source code is made primarily to be read and understood by other people, and secondarily to be executed by the computer.
This frees the programmer from the structure of a program imposed by the computer and means that the programmer can develop programs in the order of the flow of their thoughts.
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