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Literate Programming in the Large
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Timothy Daly, an original author of the Axiom computer algebra system, talks about turning a large Common Lisp codebase into a literate program. He argues code should be written as readable manuals, and the talk was given at Write the Docs 2013.
HN recommends it in literate programming threads as a rare look at applying the idea to a huge, complex codebase, though some find it meandering.
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