literate programming
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English
Etymology
Coined by Donald Knuth in 1984.
Noun
literate programming (uncountable)
- (programming) A programming paradigm in which a program is given as an explanation of the program logic in a natural language (such as English), interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable representation can be generated.
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