From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-03-18T11:34:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [slightly OT] New O'Reilly book features Matz

Re: literate programming

On Mar 17, 2007, at 4:56 AM, Xavier Noria wrote:

> Some friend of mind said by then "it's a beautiful idea that just  
> does not work".

I disagree. I offer Wolfram Research's Mathematica front end with its  
notebook interface as an example. My personal experience is that it  
works very well as a literate programming environment.

It takes a lot of engineering effort to produce a literate  
programming environment that is relatively easy to use. The  
developers of such an environment must seamlessly combine a technical- 
grade word processor with a software IDE. IMO, Wolfram has been able  
to pull this off.

Regards, Morton