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. This involves using two different languages together: program source code, and a natural human language for documentation.- Category ID : 58729
Resources, consulting services, downloads, freeware for Windows 95/98/Me-NT/2000/XP; learn about the CWEB programming system; articles, books, CD, tools, news, links.
Literate programming variant; explanations embed no code, but display next to code, in Web browser; source files are not altered, explanations organized by whole abstraction, not free form; now supports Java, Scheme. Explanations, examples, downloads.
Portable, production quality LP macro preprocessor, allows interweaving code and documentation for any programming language; emits HTML and TeX; runs on most platforms; Open source.
A WEB system of structured documentation for multiple languages, originally the F was for FORTRAN, but now handles C, C++, Fortran (F77, F90), RATFOR, TeX (somewhat), tries to implement WYSIWYG language-independent mode. Open source, GPL.