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Literate: A Flexible Literate Programming System

by cableclasper on 3/2/21, 2:05 AM with 27 comments

• by crux on 3/2/21, 2:47 AM

  I’ve written a fairly long literate program in Literate: https://blog.zdsmith.com/whist.html I really enjoyed the experience. It came out well and it was relatively painless to compose.

• by thaumaturgy on 3/2/21, 5:34 AM

  I've seen a few posts here recently on literate programming; I really hope it takes hold as a trend.

  A couple of months ago I released a "literate devops" tool: https://github.com/robsheldon/golem/

  It extends https://github.com/bashup/mdsh so that you can execute shell code, embedded in markdown, on remote servers. I hope someday that documented server management becomes the standard.

• by johtela on 3/2/21, 10:16 AM

  Shameless plug of my own tool. If you want to write literate programs in TypeScript, check out https://johtela.github.io/litscript/

  There is also a VSCode syntax highlighting extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johtela....

• by daly on 3/2/21, 8:57 AM

  Literate Programming Example:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDlzE9yy1mk

• by mzs on 3/2/21, 4:30 PM

  Here's literate programming in markdown implemented in gawk: https://github.com/bapcyk/lawk

• by rpmuller on 3/2/21, 3:50 PM

  My hope is that this recent interest in literate programming will combine with the recent interest in readable jupyter notebooks (jupytext, etc.).

• by sieste on 3/2/21, 7:48 AM

  Very nice project, I'm a big fan of literate programming. I currently use knitr. Are there any big differences between knitr and literate?

• by wrycoder on 3/2/21, 4:25 PM

  At the bottom of the link:

  and the source can be read here

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• by tom_d999 on 3/2/21, 9:54 AM

  what are the benefits of literate programming systems?