Original-Via: uk.ac.durham; Mon, 3 Feb 92 10:37:28 GMT
I think people are asking too much of a literate style. In my
opinion it is useful when writing programs with more comments than code.
In such situations, it is important to be able to distinguish comment lines
and code lines without having to look at their context. This can
be done either by placing a symbol at the start of each comment line,
or placing a symbol at the start of each code line. When there are
more comments than code, the latter approach produces less "noise".
For this reason I think that a literate style should be part of the
language.
Rick.
