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envelope-from=dimech@gmx.com; helo=mout.gmx.net X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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:131885 Archived-At: > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 at 10:58 AM > From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" > To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Quote by Knuth > > 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... I wish texinfo was better at macros. > -- > underground experts united > https://dataswamp.org/~incal > > >