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- From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Criticisms Wanted
- Date: 21 Nov 92 15:10:02
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <FRANL.92Nov21151002@draco.centerline.com>
- References: <1e1cccINNbsc@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <BxznBF.ELu@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>
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- In-reply-to: sailer@hpuerca.atl.hp.com's message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:14:02 GMT
-
- sailer@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Lee Sailer) writes:
-
- > perhaps a good compromise is "literate programming". In LP, the documentation
- > and the code are the same thing. As implemented by web, filters exist
- > which convert the well-documented code to user readable documentation. Other
- > filters convert the same code into stuff the compiler can use.
-
- Take that code-to-doc filter one step further: an expert system
- digests the code and the human asks it technical, highly abstract
- questions in a natural language. The "documentation" would never be
- out of sync with the source.
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