On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 00:44, Niklas Frykholm wrote: > I've toyed a bit with literate programming, but I'm not really sold on > the idea. I guess my problem with "documentation as source" (or even > with "source as documentation", but that is a smaller gripe) is the > notion that a program only has one "story". Usually, I find that in my > programs there are many different stories: a story for a beginner user, > a story for an expert user, a story for someone who wants to extend the > module, a story for someone who wants to hack it, a story for someone > who wants to understand and study the technology behind it. And of > course, there can be stories can be in different languages. Trying to > put all these stories as well as the source code in the same document > tends to be confusing, at least for me. *smile* Wonderfully put. -- Markus