Linuxdoc Reference: Literate Programming

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## 12. Literate Programming

    <!entity % litprog " code | verb " >

This one is a funny thing. It's the idea of not to write some comment text within a program, and might be to take later some special tools, to extract the text

> Think of `perlpod`.

, but to write a big document and later to extract the code from it.

> People who don't like to document their code will not appreciate.

The principle is: All text within `verb` and `code` tags, will be gathered into a sourcefile.

That's it, because for now I don't remember the name of the tool doing thatone.

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