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knot
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Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming
Literate programming seems to becoming popular in the R community due to KnitR and Rmarkdown. This seems to have sparked a few similar-working tools with possibly broader scope and adoption. In my bookmarks I find:
- knot [1]: tangles source code from a text file formatted using plain markdown syntax, can use any markdown converter for weaving into a printable document
- snarl [2]: extends markdown code blocks with syntax used for tangling, its "weave" steps just removes the additional syntax and outputs plain markdown
- pylit [3] [4]: a bidirectional converter: code to formatted text and back. Uses reST for formatting, and preserves line numbers which is useful when debugging. Not an LP tool strictly, as it doesn't define/rearrange code blocks so you have to write your script in the order the compiler wants it, not in the order that would make the best exposition.
Both seem to preserve relative indentation of chunks, so would be useful for Python too.
[1]: https://github.com/mqsoh/knot
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babel/tangle alternatives? [de-emacs-sation]
I'm a fan of https://github.com/mqsoh/knot/
spiralweb
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Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming
Literate Programming is one of those ideas I keep coming to. There is an idea there that touches on something I find to be true about software development, namely that the communication of an idea to other humans is the most critical piece. There is a similar idea in Naur's paper "Programming as Theory Building."
That said, I've never loved the LaTeX-centric nature of most tools. I don't like heavier markup systems while I am writing prose, which is why I wrote SpiralWeb (https://github.com/michaeljmcd/spiralweb) as a Pandoc/Markdown centric tool.
What are some alternatives?
Literate - A literate programming tool for any language
dotfiles - Yet another dotfile-repository
fw-utf8 - Modern fork of FunnelWeb (original written by Ross Williams)
clojure-small-pieces - Clojure in Small Pieces -- Literate Clojure - Created by Tim Daly
emacs-init-generator - Ramblings in art and craft of Emacs init file configuration and Elisp.
verso - A new approach to literate programming.
portia - ultimate literate programing preprocessor