On Saturday, April 20, 2013 3:35:04 PM UTC-4, da...@axiom-developer.org
wrote:
> > but, in a nutshell, is literate programming:
>
> >
> > 1. put possibly-out-of-order specially-marked (with an id) code snippets
> >throughout your doc,
> > 2. also put an *ordered* listing of all the id's somewhere in your doc,
> > 3. use tools to find that ordered list of ids, then extract the
> snippets,
> >put them in order, and glue them all together so they can be
> compiled/run?
>
> Programs are written in a certain order because the compiler
> requires it. {snip}
>
> If you try to explain various ideas and illustrate them with the
> REAL code that will be EXECUTED you need to be able to arrange
> the code in human order, not machine order.
>
> ...
>
Ok. So, if "possibly-out-of-order" (in my message above) means "in human
order", is my nutshell summary of how literate programming works correct?
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