On: Reasons to avoid code comments

[seanmcdirmid]

After looking at the source code for Tex, I have decided literate programming is a massive failure.

[_delirium → seanmcdirmid]

I think TeX in particular somewhat suffers from being written in a language few people know (a Pascal variant Knuth invented) and to 70s architectural standards (fixed buffers for everything, etc.).

Better recent examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5998580

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskore

and just about anything in http://coffeescript.org/#literate