[racket] Getting started with Scribble

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sat Mar 17 15:29:26 EDT 2012

Just now, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> Eli Barzilay wrote at 03/17/2012 02:44 PM:
> > Note that what Haskell does is *semi*-literate-programming, something
> > that has little to do with literate programming.  Neil Van Dyke is
> > working on a tool that is going to be more like
> > semi-literate-programming.
> >    
> 
> My forthcoming tool, McFly, is for *documenting the usage/API* of
> reusable packages, similar in purpose to javadoc.It's decidedly
> not literate programming, which I think of as a practice for
> implementing programs.

The way to do the markup (or other) with code which is what javadoc
does *is* exactly semi-literate-programming.  (And that's why it's
very different from literate programming.)

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