Re: Literate programming with Lout

[Jeff Kingston]

Well, I'm going to stick my neck out and say that the whole literate
programming idea is a waste of time.  I think most programmers agree
with me, at least, I know quite a few competent programmers and none
of them use it.

Sorry, but you did ask for testimonials.

Jeff


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 13:44:24 -0700, Clint Olsen wrote:
  > 
  > My apologies if this is too soon to revisit...
  > 
  > I think this may have been discussed before, but I'm unable to search
  > through the mailing list archives at the moment.  I have reviewed the
  > various TeX-based solutions (WEB, noweb, texiWEB), and they are all quite a
  > bit more involved than using Lout IMO.  I haven't used Lout for a few
  > years, but it doesn't have the learning 'cliff' problem like texinfo or
  > latex.
  > 
  > I'm not looking for a really complicated system here.  Perhaps something as
  > simple as a comment-extractor where you write everything in comments in
  > legal lout and somehow have a preprocessor extract the lout code from the
  > source code.
  > 
  > My concern of course is making sure that you can embed the C code (where
  > explicitly requested) so you don't have to write code snippets twice.  It's
  > probably more complicated than I'm predicting, but that's engineering for
  > you.
  > 
  > Comments, testimonials, or confessions?
  > 
  > -Clint