THE VIDEO SHELF · literate programming
Literate Programming in the Large
Timothy Daly, an original author of the Axiom computer algebra system, talks about turning a large Common Lisp codebase into a literate program. He argues code should be written as readable manuals, and the talk was given at Write the Docs 2013.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it in literate programming threads as a rare look at applying the idea to a huge, complex codebase, though some find it meandering.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Next Day Video
- Topic
- literate programming
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2024
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From the original HN conversations
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I like Tim Daly's viewpoint that we shouldn't just be writing code , but we should write manuals - giving high level overviews of our problems and specifying their implementation details inside the manuals. His talk "Literate Programming in the Large"[1] covers why. The example …
sparkie on Hacker News · 2014-04
In You Don't Read Code, You Explore ItI think there are two sound approaches to communicating complex systems between humans (which is the main goal here, a computer might be a bit slow compiling 200M LOC - but the real problem is that no human can read that much code, let alone …
e12e on Hacker News · 2016-05
In Final “STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming” Paper [pdf]I found this talk about re-structuring and bringing back to life a 1.2 MLOC lisp codebase with classical LP interesting (it's a bit meandering, but INHO well worth a watch): "Literate Programming in the Large": [VIDEO] The reorganization is still ongoing, as can been seen …
e12e on Hacker News · 2016-05
In Literate programming: Two beefs with the classic version (2014)
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