From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Quote by Knuth Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:58:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87eebv5ivp.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87r1gbdr6d.fsf@zoho.eu> <87o8b4eiyr.fsf@mbork.pl> <87y2a8ecck.fsf@zoho.eu> <87k0lsdsaw.fsf@mbork.pl> <87eebweq7y.fsf@mbork.pl> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16478"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:fgBOvZmLdzfQ1k5bGfSV0MXjkSY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 19 01:01:01 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m5FmP-00046x-71 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2021 01:01:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56544 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5FmN-0006Lt-Je for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:00:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5FlV-0006Lh-KL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:54840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5FlT-0004FL-U3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m5FlS-0003DX-JB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2021 01:00:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131842 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > For majority of Emacs packages that is really not necessary > as there are documentation strings or docstrings. For it to be literate programming you would stop programming in the conventional sense, instead you would write in what is much closer to a natural language, all that you'd write would look like for example English but is actually _macro code_ which describes the problem to be solved, then that is compiled into _actual_ source code that, in turn, solves the problem. So in the Emacs world, literate programming would not be docstrings but macros... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal