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7. How do I begin literate programming?

A recommended book is D.E. Knuth's collection of articles (1992) Literate Programming. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, ISBN 0-937073-80-6 (pbk). This book gives insight into Knuth's thoughts as he developed the web system of literate programming (and TeX for typesetting). It does not document methods for literate programming.

A recommended book is Wayne Sewell's (1989) Weaving a Program: Literate Programming in WEB. Van Nostrand Reinhold, ISBN 0-442-31946-0 (pbk). This book focuses on using Knuth's web system.

Some talk exists in the newsgroup/mailing list for a Usenet University course in literate programming. I'm sure discussion of this topic will be welcomed. If you are interested, please participate.


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