From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HEADER_SPAM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1032a1,4f5d9fdcc65429b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1032a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4f5d9fdcc65429b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Sven Utcke Subject: Re: Ada and Literate Programming Date: 2000/05/10 Message-ID: <%X5S4.4606$Ip.157706@cac1.rdr.news.psi.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 621428273 References: <8f6iue$pu5$1@news.fas.harvard.edu> <39171625@pfaff.ethz.ch> <8f7e1a$uce$1@news.fas.harvard.edu> X-Trace: cac1.rdr.news.psi.ca 957934459 154.5.86.206 (Wed, 10 May 2000 00:54:19 EDT) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:54:19 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.programming.literate Date: 2000-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar writes: > In article <39171625@pfaff.ethz.ch>, > Ted Dennison wrote: > > > Its something I'd like to see, as the concept of keeping > > source code and documentation in the same file is very > > attractive to me. > > To me too, but I think it is better to keep it in straight > monospaced text. Yes, this means you can't make such pretty > pictures or use elegant fonts, but what you can do is to > maintain it with exactly the same editors, configuration > management and versioning tools etc as you use for the source, > increasing the chance that it is kept up to date as the > source is changed. But of course this is just (one of) the point(s) about literate programming, to give you the tools that allow you to include pretty pictures and elegant fonts _within_ your source-code. Maybe you should have a look at the FAQ in comp.programming.literate? Sven -- _ _ _____ Artificial Intelligence Unit | | | |/ /_ _| University of Hamburg | |__| ' < | | phone: +49 (0)40 42883-2576 Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30 |____|_|\_\___| fax : +49 (0)40 42883-2572 D-22527 Hamburg http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~utcke/home.html