literate programming

Literate programming is a philosophy of computer programming based on the premise that a computer program should be written similar to literature, with human readability as a primary goal. According to this philosophy, programmers should aim for a “literate” style in their programming just as writers aim for an intelligible and articulate style in their writing. This philosophy contrasts with the mainstream view that the programmer’s primary or sole objective is to create source code and that documentation should only be a secondary objective.
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<programming, text> Combining the use of a text formatting language such as TeX and a conventional programming language so as to maintain documentation and source code together.
Literate programming may use the inverse comment convention.
Perl's literate programming system is called pod.
(2003-09-24)