Wednesday, October 09, 2002

Literate Programming The practitioner of literate programming can be regarded as an essayist, whose main concern is with exposition and excellence of style. Such an author, with thesaurus in hand, chooses the names of variables carefully and explains what each variable means. He or she strives for a program that is comprehensible because its concepts have been introduced in an order that is best for human understanding, using a mixture of formal and informal methods that reinforce each other. I have been somewhat ashamedly following that very dictum - it's nice to see someone else believes in it too. 6:21:25 PM     Comments