Literate Programming and XML

Paul Prescod papresco at technologist.com
Wed Apr 22 13:56:49 BST 1998


I just wanted to note that people have been doing literate programming in
SGML for quite a while. You should probably try to build on the existing
knowledge rather than starting from scratch:

http://www.sil.org/sgml/search?kw=literate+programming&fh=1&mh=50

Michael Sperberg-McQueen, has been thinking about this since at least
1993:

http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml93.html

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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