Re:Literate Programming: Empower Your Writing with Emacs Org...
by ModernMech on Sunday July 08, 2018 @10:10AM
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> The code is more important than the prose.
This is not the position of someone programming in a literate fashion. Their contention is that prose and code are complimentary. Code explains what the program does, prose explains why it does it that way. They work together to paint a coherent view of your program. With just code, a newcomer reading your program and understanding it 100% is still left with many questions unanswered.
This is not the position of someone programming in a literate fashion. Their contention is that prose and code are complimentary. Code explains what the program does, prose explains why it does it that way. They work together to paint a coherent view of your program. With just code, a newcomer reading your program and understanding it 100% is still left with many questions unanswered.