Re: [?] Re: Large Literate Programs

From	"Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us>
Newsgroups	comp.programming.literate
Subject	Re: [?] Re: Large Literate Programs
Date	2011-10-11 13:32 -0400
Organization	Indiana University
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:38:30 -0400, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>  
wrote:

> Do people in general find that LP is a way of documenting a program that
> has already been (designed and) implemented rather than part of the
> process of designing the program? I'd (naively) hoped for the latter!

I almost always do a significant part of the writing with the programming.  
That is, I see them as mutually beneficial. In this sense, it's part of  
designing. However, I always attempt to gain some sort of grasp on the  
concept and design before I just randomly sit down to program. Sometimes I  
experiment with ideas, but in those cases, I'm usually encoding that  
thought process into my program anways, at the documentation level.

So, I use it for both. What I don't ever do is start with a piece of  
program text that I've just finished writing, and then think, "Now I'll  
fill out the documentation." I might do this with some piece of  
non-literate code that I have inherited, but whenever I start a program  
 from scratch, the prose and code grow together, and never separately.

	Aaron W. Hsu

-- 
Programming is just another word for the Lost Art of Thinking.

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