Literate Programming: Alternative Typesetting Systems
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3 months ago
Literate programming is now almost standard. Alternative typesetting systems has attracted a lot of interest lately. R markdown ecosystem is a great tool to look at it as well. It follows the principle of literate programming. One can produce books as well.
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