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    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers,news.software.readers,alt.comp.software.thunderbird on Wed Jul 1 14:39:07 2026
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    What is newsgroup "comp.programming.literate" for?

    Is it a moderated newsgroup? Seems so...
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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Q8OzaWzDrW4=?= =?UTF-8?B?IE5pb2Nsw6Fzw61u?= =?UTF-8?B?IEdsb3N0w6lpcg==?=@thanks-to@Taf.com to alt.free.newsservers,comp.lang.ada on Wed Jul 1 19:59:39 2026
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    comp.programming.literate is moderated. Cf. Tin shows M therefor:
    "M 8 comp.programming.literate Literate programming and
    LP tools. (Moderated)"

    Cf.
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    "In an article published in The Computer Journal 27 (1984), 97-111,
    Donald E. Knuth proposed a "literate" programming style:

    I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better
    documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by
    considering programs to be works of literature. Hence, my title:
    "Literate Programming.""

    A recent article about literate programming is -
    From: Lioneldraghi
    Subject: article on Readme Driven Dev
    Message-ID: <10skrku$16jlk$2@dont-email.me>

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.free.newsservers,comp.lang.ada on Wed Jul 1 21:20:34 2026
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    On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 19:59:39 -0000 (UTC), C||il|!n Niocl|is|!n Glost|-ir wrote:

    "In an article published in The Computer Journal 27 (1984), 97-111,
    Donald E. Knuth proposed a "literate" programming style:

    I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better
    documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by
    considering programs to be works of literature. Hence, my title:
    "Literate Programming.""

    He thought about documentation in a passive way, he never thought about allowing actual interaction with the code, did he?

    ThatrCOs why I think Jupyter notebooks, as one example, go well beyond
    his old concept of rCLliterate programmingrCY.
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.free.newsservers,alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.english.usage on Thu Jul 2 13:07:56 2026
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    On 7/1/2026 2:39 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    What is newsgroup "comp.programming.literate" for?

    Is it a moderated newsgroup? Seems so...

    If "programming.literate" is about literature
    related to computers.... why not just name it
    "comp.books"? :)

    Why is it named "programming.literate"
    not "programming.literature"
    nor "programming.literacy" ?

    I can see some newsgroups related
    to computer books, all related to
    modem-based BBS (e.g. Fidonet)!!

    cn.bbs.comp.book
    tw.bbs.comp.book
    fido7.ru.books.computing
    fj.fleamaret.books.comp

    There are NO newsgroup(s) like:

    alt.books.computer
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