https://matt.might.net/articles/implementing-a-programming-language/ #TuringComplete #ProgrammingInnovation #QuickDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated
We should revisit literate programming in the agent era
https://silly.business/blog/we-should-revisit-literate-programming-in-the-agent-era/
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Literate programming is the idea that code should be intermingled with prose such that an uninformed reader could read a code base as a narrative, and come away with an understanding of how it works and what it does. Although I have long been intrigued by this idea, and have found uses for it in a couple1 of different cases2, I have found that in practice literate programming turns into a chore of maintaining two parallel narratives: the code itself, and the prose. This has obviously limited its adoption.
Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED
https://github.com/gorenje/erlang-red
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