"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
| You are still talking about reading the source of the document and | not about reading the presentation form of the document itself. It is | expected in a successful literate programming project however that | most people would begin by reading the actual literate documents in | their final format as dvi or pdf files or in printed form like in a | journal or a book. It has been asserted many times that "literate programming" is about writing for humans, not machines; it has also been asserted that Axiom is a literate. However, each time I get into Axiom source code, I have the distinctive feeling that the source code has been written or formatted for the machines, not the human. Compared to GCC -- not literate in the sense used here -- the source code are far much more readable and understandable -- let alone documentation. I have the sense that a non-literate project as GCC has source files written for humans, and not for machines :-) I know, it is easy to say; but, think about it when you change pamphlets. They should be written by humans *for humans*, not just for the typesetting machines that would render the final DVI or PDF eventually read by humans. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
