Editing Literate programming (section)

== History and philosophy ==
Literate programming was first introduced in 1984 by Donald Knuth, who intended it to create programs that were suitable literature for human beings. He implemented it at [[Stanford University]] as a part of his research on [[algorithm]]s and digital [[typography]]. The implementation was called "[[WEB]]" since he believed that it was one of the few three-letter words of English that had not yet been applied to computing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Literate Programming |url= http://www.literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf |access-date=June 3, 2019 |website=Archive.ComputerHistory.org}}</ref> However, it resembles the complicated nature of software delicately pieced together from simple materials.<ref name="TCJ_LP" /> The practice of literate programming has seen an important resurgence in the 2010s with the use of [[Notebook_interface|computational notebooks]], especially in [[data science]].