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Re:Reasons to avoid code comments by seanmcdirmid on Saturday July 13, 2013 @08:22AM (#6037388)
After looking at the source code for Tex, I have decided literate programming is a massive failure.
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Re:Reasons to avoid code comments by _delirium on Saturday July 13, 2013 @08:47AM (#6037421)
I think TeX in particular somewhat suffers from being written in a language few people know (a Pascal variant Knuth invented) and to 70s architectural standards (fixed buffers for everything, etc.).

Better recent examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5998580

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskore

and just about anything in http://coffeescript.org/#literate

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