[JasonFruit]

The cool thing is that if it's valuable, you can leave the iteration artifacts in the literate document, not as commented-out blocks like we often see, but as a part of the explanation of how we arrived at the final version of our solution. Not all code that's in the document has to end up in the compiled/executed files.

[ggm]

As appendix, maybe. A program which rehearsed the mistakes before arriving at the conclusion could be a good read, in linear order but probably not what you expect. I tend to think this is more like a rolls-royce, you want to be able to look in the boot at the old water pump but only to clarify how closely it resembles the current one, if the current one breaks: if the current water pump works, thats what you want to see first if you open the bonnet.

"Reader, she married him" as the first words of the book, not the last basically.

[majewsky]

I had an instance of this where I built up a rather contrived data structure over time and ended up putting what is basically a blog post into the repo to explain the history of that data structure: https://github.com/majewsky/rust-jmdict/blob/main/CONTRIBUTI...