[Gardeners] documentation

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Fri Jan 13 14:53:33 CST 2006


On 13 Jan 2006, at 19:40, Paolo Amoroso wrote:

> Some time ago, I read Knuth's works on literate programming and played
> with noweb, and this seemed interesting, at least for static languages
> like C.  But I always wondered how this approach fits in the dynamic,
> interactive style of Lisp development.

I had a good experience with LP for some Dylan code, but I did find  
the overhead of trying to document something before I had worked it  
out in the code was prohibitive. I'm not sure how well literate  
programming fits with exploratory programming, but maybe that's just  
me. :-)

- Rob.


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