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Literate programming

Literate programming (LP) is a programming paradigm introduced in 1984 by Donald Knuth in which a computer program is given as an explanation of how it works in a natural language, such as English, interspersed (embedded) with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable source code can be generated. The approach is used in…

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related to Remarkable examples · 35
Literate programming → Academy Award, Algorithms, Axiom, Bell Labs, Compiler, CWEB, Data Structures, HINT, IBM, Implementations, Inform, Interfaces, It, Knuth, Knuth's, LCC, METAFONT, MMIX, MMIXware, MPEG
related to Literate programming practices · 18
Literate programming → Computers, CWEB, DOC, He, Knuth, Knuth's TeX, Many, Marneffe, Pascal, PDF, Pierre-Arnoul, Silvio Levy, TeX, The, There, These, Typesetting, WEB
related to history · 8
Literate programming → Donald Knuth, English, He, However, Literate, Stanford University, The, WEB
related to Advantages · 6
Literate programming → According, Applicability, Knuth, TeX, The, This
related to Contrast with documentation generation · 6
Literate programming → However, Java Javadoc, Knuth, Literate, Perl Plain Old Documentation, This
related to Example · 6
Literate programming → Chapter, CWEB, Knuth, The, This, Unixwcword
related to Program as a web · 5
Literate programming → Donald Knuth, Literate, Macros, The, This
related to Concept · 4
Literate programming → Literate, Macros, The, These
related to Workflow · 4
Literate programming → Generating, Implementing, Tangling, Weaving
related to External links · 3
Literate programming → CTAN, LiterateProgramming, WikiWikiWebLiterate Programming FAQ

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literate programming code program macros source used documentation knuth language web tools file also one programs example order logic compiler

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Literate programmingis aliterate implementation of the standard Unixwcword counting program0.90text
Literate programmingrelated to AdvantagesAccording0.60section
Literate programmingrelated to AdvantagesKnuth0.60section
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Literate programmingrelated to AdvantagesThis0.60section
Literate programmingrelated to AdvantagesApplicability0.60section
Literate programmingrelated to AdvantagesTeX0.60section
Literate programmingrelated to ConceptLiterate0.60section
Literate programmingrelated to ConceptMacros0.60section
Literate programmingrelated to ConceptThese0.60section
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Literate programmingrelated to Contrast with documentation generationLiterate0.60section

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