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Knuth, D.E., "Literate Programming", The Computer Journal, 27, 2, pp. 97-111, 1984. Google
97 ;;Quote: literate programs written for understanding by humans; programmer as essayist; concepts presented in best order either formally or informally
97 ;;Quote: Knuth found literate programming a much better way of programming
97 ;;Quote: express a program as a web of ideas with structural relationships with neighbors
98 ;;Quote: weaving a WEB program into a document; tangling it into a program
99 ;;Quote: in WEB, refer to parts of the program by an informal top-level description
99 ;;Quote: in WEB a section's comments motivates and explains its program text
106 ;;Quote: installation procedure for WEB
107 ;;Quote: complex software consists of simple parts and relations; the programmer's goal is human comprehension
107 ;;Quote: top-down programming is goal oriented but final decisions not made until the end
107 ;;Quote: bottom-up programming increases functional power but lacks organization
108 ;;Quote: in WEB each part of program has its appropriate size
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