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#+title: Literate Programming
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In literate programming the goal is to write your program as you would write a book. Or to see it another way, you write the documentation first, and then the implementation in it. Or another way, you make your documentation executable. It lets us focus on the /why/ of the code before the what.
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The idea is that
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Here is a video that talks about what literate programming is:
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#+begin_export html
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Av0PQDVTP4A" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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#+end_export
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Some example projects that do this:
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- The books “Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography” and “Lisp in Small Pieces” are supposed to have been written as literate programs.
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