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		lompad 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design Does everything have to be pushed into a structure-prescribing set of rules? Can't we just say "comments are useful here" without trying to make it into a case for $methodology?

kragen 5 months ago [–]

Literate programming isn't a structure-prescribing set of rules or a methodology. It's just making the prose primary and the code secondary.

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