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

Is it a moderated newsgroup? Seems so...
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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)"

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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 -
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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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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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Mr. Man-wai Chang:

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

<https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html>
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On 7/4/2026 5:10 AM, Anton Shepelev wrote:

Mr. Man-wai Chang:

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

<https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html>

Never used nor heard of this programming
language. From the look of it, it's just
augmenting the C programming language.
Very much like C++.

Why posts to the newsgroup was like diverted
to alt.dev.null? Is this normal? Did
Mr. Knuth requested this action?

Or was Mr. Donald E. Knuth missing so that
the newsgroup was closed for good?

Knuth (Donald E. Knuth): Literate Programming <https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html>

Literate Programming

by Donald E. Knuth (Stanford, California: Center for the Study
of Language and Information, 1992), xvi+368pp.
(CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 27.) ISBN 0-937073-80-6
Japanese translation by Makoto Arisawa,
Bungeiteki Programming (Tokyo: ASCII Corporation, 1994),
463pp.

Literate programming - Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming>



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On 7/3/2026 8:59 PM, Darth Wader wrote:

Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

Meow

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On 7/4/2026 5:10 AM, Anton Shepelev wrote:

Mr. Man-wai Chang:

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

<https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html>

Never used nor heard of this programming
language. From the look of it, it's just
augmenting the C programming language.
Very much like C++.

Why posts to the newsgroup was like diverted
to alt.dev.null? Is this normal? Did
Mr. Knuth requested this action?

Or was Mr. Donald E. Knuth missing so that
the newsgroup was closed for good?

Knuth (Donald E. Knuth): Literate Programming <https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html>

Literate Programming

by Donald E. Knuth (Stanford, California: Center for the Study
of Language and Information, 1992), xvi+368pp.
(CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 27.) ISBN 0-937073-80-6
Japanese translation by Makoto Arisawa,
Bungeiteki Programming (Tokyo: ASCII Corporation, 1994),
463pp.

Literate programming - Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming>

Article Not Found rCo Grokipedia
<https://grokipedia.com/page/Makoto_Arisawa>

Makoto Arisawa rCo Grokipedia
<https://grokipedia.com/page/Makoto_Arisawa>
"Makoto Arisawa (uLeu#otLftE|????) is a Japanese computer scientist and professor emeritus at the Faculty of Environment and Information
Studies, Keio University, with a Doctor of Engineering degree.***He***is
also known as a short story writer, often blending themes of information engineering.[1][2]"

Google Translate <https://translate.google.com/?sl=zh-TW&tl=ja&text=Makoto%20Arisawa%0A&op=translate>


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On 7/3/2026 8:59 PM, Darth Wader wrote:
> > Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Meow
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