Literate
What is Literate programming?
Literate programming is a style of programming invented by Donald Knuth, where the main idea is that a program's source code is made primarily to be read and understood by other people, and secondarily to be executed by the computer.
This frees the programmer from the structure of a program imposed by the computer and means that the programmer can develop programs in the order of the flow of their thoughts.
A Literate program generally consists of explanation of the code in a natural language such as English, interspersed with snippets of code to be executed. This means that Literate programs are very easy to understand and share, as all the code is well explained.
Literate is a tool for creating literate programs.
The goal of this project is to create a literate programming tool which keeps most, if not all of the features of Knuth and Levy's original CWEB system, but simplifies the system and adds even more features.
You can view the main website about Literate here including a manual on how to use Literate.
Features
Supports any language including syntax highlighting and pretty printing in HTML
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