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1401 points alankay | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.271s | source

This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).
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nekopa ◴[] No.11941996[source]
Hi Alan,

What is your view on Literate Programming and why it hasn't taken off (yet)?

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1. alankay1 ◴[] No.11946341[source]
It would be great for the programs themselves to somehow be "literate". That said, it is quite a bit of work to write an essay (Don Knuth makes it look easy, but ...)