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literate programming

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(programming, text)literate programming - Combining the use of a text formatting language such as TeX and a conventional programming language so as to maintain documentation and source code together.

Literate programming may use the inverse comment convention.

Perl's literate programming system is called pod.

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Donald Knuth, one of the acknowledged fathers of computer science, was nominated for his TeX typesetting system and for his technique of literate programming.
 
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