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Right, but it's important to emphasize what stiff was talking about, that the structure of the narrative needs to be oriented towards the human instead of the machine, because so many people don't bother to do this and decide that literate programming just means having LaTeX or docbook comments in your code. That total inversion (the code is in the documentation, not the documentation is in the code) is important. (That said, I admit that most modern languages are so much more flexible compared to C or Pascal with regards the ordering of code.)


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