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Literate Programming

Literate Programming (LP) was invented by Dr. Donald Knuth in the 1980s. It views programming as a mainly literary activity, where the main task is to concentrate on explaining to humans what the computer must do, and the program is a secondary message embedded in a resulting documentation Web. LP raises documentation from being an often neglected afterthought, to becoming the main principle of program organization.

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• - Simple, extensible tool for Literate Programming.
  
• - A good place to start looking for information.
  
• - By Donald Knuth and Levy, describing a prominent system of Literate Programming.
  
• - Provide tools to support Donald Knuth's Literate Programming using XML instead of TeX. Is not based on any specific DTD or programming language, but instead uses processing instructions for processing the literate programs.
  
• - An article by Peter J. Knaggs, originally presented at euroFORTH'95.
  
• - A part of the Computer Science Bibliography Collection.
  
• - WEB2 programming tool for Pascal combining program-code and documentation into a single source-file.
  
• - A large collection of links to related resources.
  
• - A Literate Programming tool for XML written in XSL-T.
  
• - The WikiWiki entry point for related information and discussions.
  
• - Aricle by Norman Walsh.
  
• - Information on applying SGML and XML to Literate Programming.
  
• - Overview of the concepts and some ideas for applying this methodology.
  
  

• Usenet comp.programming.literate - news: - Google Groups
• Usenet comp.text.tex - news: - Google Groups

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