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by pmags 871 days ago
And knitr is built on the prior art foundations of Sweave....
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And sweave is built on noweb :)
...which was based on CWEB/WEB and so on... ;-)

Though I guess we can stop there in this particular case, unless someone knows of an example of literate programming that precedes Knuth. I'd be interested if there are such examples...