Versioned Literate Programming for Tutorials

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last posted July 15, 2014, 12:48 p.m.

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Dave Long's response to my original 2004 post:

Literate programming is composing a program source by pasting together a dag of (smaller) chunks. Versioning, however, is composing a program source by pasting together a list of (sequential) edits.

The former is primarily spatial, and the latter primarily temporal, so it may not be too difficult to keep the two from interfering.

Heck; use the versioning capability to expand chunks in the appropriate environment of a configuration tree, and one would have self-documenting CM.

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