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by porker 4325 days ago
I don't know if this counts as literate programming, but one of my favourite outputs for learning about code is Docco: http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/

Sample output: http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html

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Literate programming requires that there is freedom in ordering content in the literate file. Otherwise, you are restricted to the execution order of the computer. The intent of literate programming is to circumvent that requisite. Otherwise the tool is just a pretty printer of sorts.
Yep, he pretty much applied literate programming and first made it practical