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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Literate Programming in Ada, AdaDoc, AdaBrowse
Date: 16 Oct 2004 21:46:44 +0200
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Steve wrote:
> Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> > Steve wrote:

> > > What I would like to see is a fancy programming editor that
> > > allows you to include text, graphics, spreadsheets, etc., in
> > > comments.
> >
> > Why in the comments?
> >
> Because it makes the writing the tool simple, and minimizes on the
> amount of garbage in the source code.

I would rather say that it increases the amount of garbage in the
source code.

> For example, the code might look something like
[...]
> -- M0410151846

So you don't want to include other data formats in the code, but just
to link to them.  Why not just use the identifiers already available
in the source code for the links, instead of adding new ones?  (I
don't think I'm the first to suggest this)

Jacob
-- 
�Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the
 programming language.�                    -- Preben Randhol