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From: | Bill Page |
Subject: | Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom, FriCAS, forks and teeth |
Date: | Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:53:15 -0400 |
On 7/10/07, didier deshommes wrote:
2007/7/10, Bill Page: > While we are dragging this thread further into the merits/demerits of > literate programming, I thought I would mention one alternative to Speaking of liteerate programming, I stumbled accros this blog entry about the (partial) failures of the literate programming tool noweb: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dbindel/eigenstuff/2007-04.html#x-2007-04-30-dsbweb I don't know much about lp but maybe it isn't catching up because the tools are too limited and/or too cumbersome for "normal users"?
Cool! Thanks for the ref. Maybe there is something to this approach with "everything" in the comments? At least that way there is no distinction between source as traditional developers usually see and the documentation. To me this seems like a simpler form of the idea promoted by Leo that markers should be inserted as comments in the tangled code so that direct edits to the code can be automatically reflected in the full literate source. In both cases this can be (more or less) layered on top of traditional practices. Regards, Bill Page. Regards, Bill Page.
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