| Literate programming is going to feel far more powerful when we expand the definition to include: - Smalltalk-ish things like writing suites of custom viewers for various types,
- demos and examples in-line inside of a library
- multiple stories about the same piece of code, but all with the ability to IMPORT the story as a library I've been writing sicmutils[0] as a "literate library"; see the automatic differentiation implementation as an example[1]. A talk I gave yesterday at ELS[2] demos a much more powerful host that uses Nextjournal's Clerk[3] to power physics animations, TeX rendering etc, but all derived from a piece of Clojure source that you can pull in as a library, ignoring all of these presentation effects. Code should perform itself, and it would be great if when people thought "LP" they imagined the full range of media through which that performance could happen. [0] sicmutils: https://github.com/sicmutils/sicmutils [1] autodiff namespace: https://github.com/sicmutils/sicmutils/blob/main/src/sicmuti... [2] Talk code: https://github.com/sritchie/programming-2022 [3] Clerk: https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk |