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literate programming

noun

Etymology

Coined by Donald Knuth in 1984.

Definitions

  1. A programming paradigm in which a program is given as an explanation of the program logic…

    A programming paradigm in which a program is given as an explanation of the program logic in a natural language (such as English), interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable representation can be generated.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for literate programming. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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