Literate Programming: 27 (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes) - Softcover

Knuth, Donald E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0937073806 ISBN 13: 9780937073803

Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0937073806
• ISBN 13: 9780937073803
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384