I’m considering giving literate programming another go. I’m feeling kind of excited after this video with Timothy Daly: https://youtu.be/Av0PQDVTP4A
About ten years ago I built a web app for a client using LP and it was a really nice experience. However I didn’t continue using that approach. Fear of more complicated refactoring and difficulty explaining the benefits to co-workers held me back. Maybe I’ll try it on a smallish project this time.
@jelle Great talk. The Donald Knuth quote he paraphrased is, "Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."
@Parienve yes, that’s exactly the central most important thing imo. I really like that idea and it’s worth exploring it further.
@jelle Also, a URL mentioned in the video wouldn't load for me, but it's saved in the Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20201110103325/http://www.axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/litprog.html