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Re: Literate programming with Lout
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Jeff Kingston |
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Re: Literate programming with Lout |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Jun 2002 09:58:42 +1000 |
Well, I'm going to stick my neck out and say that the whole literate
programming idea is a waste of time. I think most programmers agree
with me, at least, I know quite a few competent programmers and none
of them use it.
Sorry, but you did ask for testimonials.
Jeff
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 13:44:24 -0700, Clint Olsen wrote:
>
> My apologies if this is too soon to revisit...
>
> I think this may have been discussed before, but I'm unable to search
> through the mailing list archives at the moment. I have reviewed the
> various TeX-based solutions (WEB, noweb, texiWEB), and they are all quite a
> bit more involved than using Lout IMO. I haven't used Lout for a few
> years, but it doesn't have the learning 'cliff' problem like texinfo or
> latex.
>
> I'm not looking for a really complicated system here. Perhaps something as
> simple as a comment-extractor where you write everything in comments in
> legal lout and somehow have a preprocessor extract the lout code from the
> source code.
>
> My concern of course is making sure that you can embed the C code (where
> explicitly requested) so you don't have to write code snippets twice. It's
> probably more complicated than I'm predicting, but that's engineering for
> you.
>
> Comments, testimonials, or confessions?
>
> -Clint