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Interesting.

Surprised I never heard of "Wikilon" (apparently it was an early precursor to Jupyter Notebooks?)

I agree with the criticism at the bottom:

>There's good and bad parts of LP, but it's not fair to pick examples of bad LP and use them to criticize all of LP, even if they were written by the guy who invented it. Some of the Wright planes crashed, but that doesn't mean airplanes are bad.

The mention of Axiom is interesting, since I find that going a step further and integrating Tangle/Weave so that both "just happen" is a big reduction in friction, hence my stumping for assistance:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/722886/how-to-write-...

and working up a package:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/literati...

(which unfortunately has to be edited to match the files which it outputs, as must the master .tex file)

which allows me to typeset a .tex file (which has ``normal'' syntax colouring in an editor, no "sea of grey" as .dtx inflicts) and get both the typeset .pdf and the .py and .scad files which are my project:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

(currently deeply into a re-write and hope to have a fully working version up by the end of the week --- see the archived v0.6 .tex/.pdf pair: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcodepre... to see a working state/example)



I think it's not fair :) that you quoted from that comment here without pointing out my sentence in the immediate response:

> I absolutely think literate programs are a strict improvement on non-literate ones.

The whole article is about how good the airplanes are, and how much better they could be!




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