Literate Programming

Author

Johan Hidding

Published

September 7, 2023

Note
  • Date: Thursday, 7th September 2023
  • Time: 15:00-17:00
  • Location: Living Lab, University Library (Utrecht Science Park)
  • Presentation: Literate Programming
  • Presenter: Johan Hidding

Literate Programming in Markdown.

Literate programming is a methodology that combines a programming language with a documentation language, thereby making programs more robust, more portable, more easily maintained, and arguably more fun to write than programs that are written only in a high-level language. The main idea is to treat a program as a piece of literature, addressed to human beings rather than to a computer (source).

Johan Hidding (eScienceCenter) is passionate about literate programming and in this edition of the Programming Cafe, he presented a package that he developed to write Literate Programs in Markdown.

Slides

coming soon

Reference

  1. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html