Re:Ask HN: Why did literate programming not catch on?
by mkozlows on Sunday August 16, 2015 @05:04PM
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Others have already given the reasons about the downsides of comments. One other reason is: Most developers are terrible, terrible writers.
It's one thing to imagine a profession of literate programming as practiced by Donald Knuth; it's another thing entirely to imagine it as practiced by the kind of people who are actually writing code.
It's one thing to imagine a profession of literate programming as practiced by Donald Knuth; it's another thing entirely to imagine it as practiced by the kind of people who are actually writing code.