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literate programming
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The practice of embedding source code within a larger quantity of
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documentation written in natural language (typically English).
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The intention is to make the code more readable and to render
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explicit the author's beliefs and intentions as to what the code
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should be doing. Literate program typically involves more elaborated
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explanations than occasional comment lines. It was originally
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proposed by Donald Knuth. Also see self-documenting code.
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