Timothy J. Weber wrote:

>>> Of course, transitioning would be hard 
>> 
>> Not necessarily. Using your RTF or HTML (WYSIWYG) editor of choice and a
>> preprocessor that copies only the code part (easily parsed) into a temp
>> file that gets fed to the compiler or assembler, this could probably be
>> integrated rather easy with most languages. Bad thing is that none of the
>> IDEs would work with this, so if you're hooked onto an IDE that's not for
>> you.
> 
> Yes... and IDEs can speed things up a lot, especially around managing
> the tremendous and fast-changing vocabulary one always needs for any
> given project.  So perhaps a custom IDE would be needed. 
> 
> But mostly, I think it would be hard to convince other programmers -
> team members, future team members, management...  That's not always
> necessary, of course, if you ARE management, or you are 100% of the
> team.

I think this could work pretty easily and quickly if one big-name IDE 
manufacturer adds this in, like Microsoft into their VS. I don't understand 
why this hasn't happened some time ago already -- the Literate Programming 
idea is old by now, by the industry standards.

Gerhard

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