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    Literate programming by Donald Knuth

    Literate programming is a programming style introduced by Donald Knuth in 1984. The focus is on explaining the logic and reasoning behind a computer program (comments) to human readers, rather than just providing instructions for the computer ( plain source code ). The key ideas are: Definition Literate programming is a programming paradigm where a computer program is explained in natural language interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code. Purpose Used for reproducible research and open access in scientific computing and data science. Approach Literate programming by Donald Knuth Gives programmers templates to develop programs in the order demanded by the logic and flow of their thoughts. Moving…

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