Original-Via: uk.ac.nsf; Sun, 2 Feb 92 02:07:28 GMT
I, too, am puzzled about trying to fix a ``literate style'' in a
particular programming language. It seems to have limited use. There
appear to be many other kinds of ``documented code'' where it seems to
be inappropriate:
- Documents where there may be many versions of a function FOO,
perhaps to illustrate a transformation sequence deriving the final
version actually used in the program. Some of these code fragments
may have elided portions, or pseudo-code.
- Documents where text formatting facilities (fonts, symbols) are used
within code.
- Documents that compare code fragments in several programming languages
In all these cases, and more, there does not seem to be a suitably
simple, general notion of mechanically extracting ``the program'' from
the text.
Nikhil
