Tag Archives: Literate-programming

The Ferret Lisp System

Nurullah Akkaya has an interesting project, Ferret, that compiles a Lisp dialect into C++. It’s very portable and can compile code not only for the major platforms but for embedded systems as well. Basically anything that can support C++ can … Continue reading

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Why Literate Programming: One Man’s Answer

Shane Cellos has a nice post on why literate programming makes sense. He tells the story of how he and an equally matched colleague worked on a relatively simple project. It was, he says, an ideal situation. One colleague with … Continue reading

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Abrams on Literate Programming

Howard Abrams has a nice post on Literate Programming. By now that’s a fairly hoary subject—the idea dates back to Knuth in the early 1980s—but Abram’s post is nice because it considers how to do this with Emacs and Org … Continue reading

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