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Re: Literate Executables
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Terence Kelly |
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Re: Literate Executables |
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Sat, 3 Dec 2022 01:01:38 -0500 (EST) |
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Alpine 2.22 (DEB 394 2020-01-19) |
Hi Tim,
Your observations seem sound. Keep in mind, however, that we're not
confronted with an either/or choice. The chicken/egg aspect of literate
executables means that, in your context, we can arrange for the PDF to
generate code *and* for the code to generate PDF. Cyclic dependency
graphs take some getting used to, but one can learn to love them.
If literate execution isn't right for Axiom, perhaps it can benefit other
IBM open source projects. If you circulate the paper among your
colleagues I'd be interested to see if they find useful applications.
_Queue_ readers are remarkably creative and routinely find uses for Drill
Bits ideas that I never anticipated. I wonder what your colleagues will
come up with.
Thanks.
-- Terence
On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, Tim Daly wrote:
...
The above considerations leads me to the conclusion that the PDF is the
thing that generates code rather than the code generating the PDF.