Re: Literate Programming

[Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Yannick Duch�ne Hibou57 a �crit :

[Lot of interesting stuff about literate programming deleted]

> The basic idea in literate, is that the implementation approach is not
> the same as the understanding approach. A quick image could be to
> point that when one figure out how something works, his/her wordings
> may introduce B before A, while the implementation may requires A to
> be defined before B (different process, different requirements). This
> is just an example, just think about the idea that the understanding
> process is not the same as the implementation process.
> 
> A fundamental function of literate, is called tangling. This is the
> function which take one view which purpose is to be the implementation
> view and combines parts as referenced in this view, to make up the
> implementation. It produce an output which is the implementation
> expected by the language.
> 
This looks a lot like what HOOD (and HOOD tools) do: diagrams and
documentation for understanding, separate pieces for the code. Then the
tool can extract documentation and/or programs, by extracting the pieces
and providing the glue.

Do you think we could advertise HOOD as literate programming ;-) ?
-- 
---------------------------------------------------------
           J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr)
Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr