Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX
by kkfx on Thursday November 03, 2022 @05:32PM
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Not really a programmer (sysadmin) but I've tried the literate way with org-mode for my stuff and I use LaTeX for all "pretty docs" needs, however while for document production LaTeX excel literate programming AS A MERE CONCEPT for me does not work that much:
- simple things became uselessly lengthy and prolix
- complex things became too big to be easy read, while the equivalent "pure-code with comments" and a small new developers doc while fail to give an equally deep knowledge of the code base is FAR more quick and easy accessed.
Maybe it's my style, I do not know but while I do not feel LaTeX as painful, since most my docs are of the same kind so a template/class produced once with calm get reused issueless, I can't really digest literate programming...
- simple things became uselessly lengthy and prolix
- complex things became too big to be easy read, while the equivalent "pure-code with comments" and a small new developers doc while fail to give an equally deep knowledge of the code base is FAR more quick and easy accessed.
Maybe it's my style, I do not know but while I do not feel LaTeX as painful, since most my docs are of the same kind so a template/class produced once with calm get reused issueless, I can't really digest literate programming...