Literate programming

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Literate programming is a philosophy of computer programming based on the premise that a computer program should be written similar to literature, with human readability as a primary goal.

Traditional programs have human language comments interspersed in computer language code. Literate programs reverse this style, with computer language "comments" interspersed in a human language essay.

[edit] noweb

An excellent (and simple) literate programming tool is noweb. There is a hello-world example and some intro information on Wikipedia. The official quick intro is here, and a 12 page intro is here.

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