Weekend reading 2011.08.26

[Fogus]

"Towards Modern Literate Programming" by Matthew Smith

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.12.1775&rank=3

Questions to ask yourself. How is Marginalia different? How does it
solve some of the problems of LP? How does it fall short?

[Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant]

Having never studied Literate Programming in depth, this was an illuminating paper.

I see why it's stressed that Marginalia is a "ultra-light LP system".

One little detail that I think Marginalia lacks is linking to functions. I believe this is noted

on the TODO list (Paragraph anchors).

I personally haven't written enough Marginalia to come across this need. Is this a feature that

would benefit? 

Is Clojure's discouragement of forward declarations related to this feature? ie. bottom-up reading.

Thanks,

Ambrose