Re:Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Ra...
by e12e on Saturday November 09, 2013 @06:34PM
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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.
I would argue literate programming is experiencing a renaissance, thanks to docco:
https://github.com/jashkenas/docco