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Quote by Knuth
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Christopher Dimech |
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Quote by Knuth |
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Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:41:11 +0200 |
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 at 10:58 AM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor"
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Quote by Knuth
>
> Jean Louis wrote:
>
> > For majority of Emacs packages that is really not necessary
> > as there are documentation strings or docstrings.
>
> For it to be literate programming you would stop programming
> in the conventional sense, instead you would write in what is
> much closer to a natural language, all that you'd write would
> look like for example English but is actually _macro code_
> which describes the problem to be solved, then that is
> compiled into _actual_ source code that, in turn, solves
> the problem.
>
> So in the Emacs world, literate programming would not be
> docstrings but macros...
I wish texinfo was better at macros.
> --
> underground experts united
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal
>
>
>
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