One of the most common questions about software development is how to become more productive as a programmer. It is well known that there is a big difference in productivity between mediocre programmers and great programmers, although this is still a little understood phenomenon. For example, there has been anecdotal evidence that the amount of…
Software development is a very specialized area. It often enables the creation of strict specialities, where a programmer spends his whole time learning the intricacies of a particular language and computer environment and employing that knowledge to particular applications. While it is true that most of us go to school and learn a common introductory…
Literate programming is the methodology for software development proposed by Don Knuth and used by himself to build the TeX system for document preparation. TeX is the system used as the basis for LaTeX, which is itself used by everyone in science and mathematics to write technical documents. The original version of literate programming was…