English Explanatory Dictionary

literate programming

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A programming paradigm in which a program is given as an explanation of the program logic in a natural language (such as English), interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable representation can be generated.

Word forms

literate programming

Etymology

Coined by Donald Knuth in 1984.

Related words

notebook
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