Literate Programming, Why?
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Knuth's WEB system for literate programming has slowly built a signi cant following. Systems now exist for most common high level languages. I will give an overview of literate programming and a biased view of its status including: 1. an annotated bibliography of available WEB systems, 2. elementary software metrics that may be used in evaluating codes, 3. an indication of the using (practicing?) communities, and 4. expected changes/evolutions in these systems. The `Literate Programming' column of the CACM was canceled because it seemed every literate programmer had created their own system. Both sides of this issue will be addressed. Finally, we will discuss the use of a literate programming environment in a rst programming/problem solving/CS-1, and CS-2 type courses. This is being done on an experimental basis in honors sections of our courses this semester.
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