Literate Programming (Lecture Notes) - Softcover

Knuth, Donald E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0937073806 ISBN 13: 9780937073803

Verlag: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

This anthology of essays from Donald Knuth, "the father of computer science," and the inventor of literate programming includes early essays on related topics such as structured programming, as well as The Computer Journal article that launched literate programming itself. Many examples are given, including excerpts from the programs for TeX and METAFONT. The final essay is an example of CWEB, a system for literate programming in C and related languages.

This volume is first in a series of Knuth's collected works.

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Reseña del editor

Literate programming is a programming methodology that combines a programming language with a documentation language, making programs more robust, more portable, and more easily maintained than programs written only in a high-level language. Computer programmers already know both kinds of languages; they need only learn a few conventions about alternating between languages to create programs that are works of literature. A literate programmer is an essayist who writes programs for humans to understand, instead of primarily writing instructions for machines to follow. When programs are written in the recommended style they can be transformed into documents by a document compiler and into efficient code by an algebraic compiler. This anthology of essays from the inventor of literate programming includes Knuth's early papers on related topics such as structured programming, as well as the Computer Journal article that launched literate programming itself.

Biografía del autor

Donald E. Knuth is one of the world's pre-eminent computer scientists, whose works have had a profound influence on the subject since the publication in 1968 of the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth created TeX, a language for typesetting mathematical and scientific texts, and METAFONT, a computer software system for alphabet design. He is professor emeritus at Stanford University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0937073806
• ISBN 13: 9780937073803
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 383
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