
Writing, Technically with James Somers
Signals and Threads
What Is Literate Programming?
Donald Knuth, a great early figure in computer science continues to work today. One of the things he invented is this concept of literate programming. Can you try and give a summary of what literate programming is? And I should say I basically don't get it. But I think it's like really trying to make your software read like a piece of prose.
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