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Re:Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Ra... by ash on Saturday November 09, 2013 @10:59AM (#6701952)
> Literate programming… didn't catch on

I would argue literate programming is experiencing a renaissance, thanks to docco:

https://github.com/jashkenas/docco

Re:Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Ra... by e12e on Saturday November 09, 2013 @06:34PM (#6704109)
I think literate coffeescript might be a better example of popularizing literate programming:

http://ashkenas.com/literate-coffeescript/

There also seems to be some traction for literate Haskell:

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

I experimented a bit with literate programming on an introductory course in programming using java. It's an interesting experience -- it's very easy to produce a very readable language that is still pretty poor java code, as it becomes so easy to split out fragments and "procedures", rather than follow the more common java class-oriented object orientated way of doing things.

Re:Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Ra... by pjmlp on Saturday November 09, 2013 @12:54PM (#6702392)
Not really, I never heard of docco and am yet to see a RFP for a node.js project from my employer's enterprise customers.
Re:Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Ra... by vidarh on Saturday November 09, 2013 @10:34PM (#6705032)
Chances are much higher that you've seen the output of Docco or one of the multitude of imitations for other languages.