literate programming

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literate programming - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  literate programming
  LitProg
  
     <programming, text> Combining the use of a text formatting
     language such as TeX and a conventional programming language
     so as to maintain documentation and source code together.
  
     Literate programming may use the inverse comment convention.
  
     Perl's literate programming system is called pod.
  
     (2003-09-24)