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Literate Programming can be Quick and Dirty.

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Observed mentions: 2010-03-17 06:30:28 UTC to 2023-07-11 19:47:53 UTC.

012342010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023

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20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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I think Docco was when that approach acquired some kind of popularity? So 2010 or so[1]. Of course Haskell has had its “literate format” since forever (ETA: the Haskell 1.2 report[2], dated March 1992, has a description in an appendix), and it became mildly popular for Haskell blogging when blogs caught on, but its name was always accompanied by a side note that in Haskell you don’t really need to reorder things (kind of true). [1] https://github.com/jashkenas/docco/commit/9b666b77c476fd76b9... [2] http://haskell.org/definition/haskell-report-1.2.ps.gz
In Retro: A modern, pragmatic Forth
I like this idea. It could take literate programming [1] to the next level. Existing tools like docco [2] can output beautiful documentation [3] with comments set alongside code. The language/editor described above would allow us to input code in the same side-by-side format. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming [2]: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco [3]: https://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html
In Next-Paradigm Programming Languages: What Will They Look Like?
This are a few of the things that I am to following : Server side: Testing: - Expresso [1]: TDD framework for node -- high speed parallel testing! - Zombie.js [2]: fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js Tools: - load.js [3]: Lazy load your JS - npm [4] a package manager for node - JSDoc [5] Documentation tool - Docco [6] Literate documentation. - underscore [7] provides a lot of the functional programming - node-openid [8] openid. Frameworks: - Express [8] Sinatra inspired web development framework for node [1] http://visionmedia.github.com/expresso/ [2] http://zombie.labnotes.org/ [3] https://github.com/chriso/load.js [4] https://github.com/isaacs/npm [5] https://github.com/micmath/JSDoc [6] https://github.com/jashkenas/docco [7] http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/ [8] https://github.com/havard/node-openid [9] https://g
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