On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:40:57PM +0800, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote:
> Not only do we need people to write useful code, we need them to write
> good code.

I made a few experiments in literate programming, which may go a certain
way towards writing better code.  As Don Knuth described it, literate
programming represents a conceptual shift in writing programs: "Instead
of imagining that our main task is to instruct a *computer* what to do,
let us concentrate rather on explaining to *human beings* what we want a
computer to do."

You can see the results of my experiments at
http://xml-lit.sourceforge.net/, which is an attempt to write a literate
programming system based on XML.

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