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    comp.programming.literate is moderated. Cf. Tin shows M therefor:
    "M 8 comp.programming.literate Literate programming and
    LP tools. (Moderated)"

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    "In an article published in The Computer Journal 27 (1984), 97-111,
    Donald E. Knuth proposed a "literate" programming style:

    I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better
    documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by
    considering programs to be works of literature. Hence, my title:
    "Literate Programming.""

    A recent article about literate programming is -
    From: Lioneldraghi
    Subject: article on Readme Driven Dev
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@[email protected] to alt.free.newsservers,comp.lang.ada on Wed Jul 1 21:20:34 2026
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    On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 19:59:39 -0000 (UTC), Cóilín Nioclásín Glostéir wrote:

    "In an article published in The Computer Journal 27 (1984), 97-111,
    Donald E. Knuth proposed a "literate" programming style:

    I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better
    documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by
    considering programs to be works of literature. Hence, my title:
    "Literate Programming.""

    He thought about documentation in a passive way, he never thought about allowing actual interaction with the code, did he?

    That’s why I think Jupyter notebooks, as one example, go well beyond
    his old concept of “literate programming”.
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