Monday, August 06, 2007

rweb




A blog post about RWEB, literate programming for Ruby, based on the WEB concept by the mighty mighty Donald Knuth.

Very interesting. I like the idea of WEB, but it just didn't look pretty enough for me. I write tons of comments in my code, I sometimes turn code into a little novel, I think it's the only way to write code, I love seeing what the developer meant when she was writing code, to see where he wanted the code to go, to see what she was thinking, and comments are awesome for communicating between coders. Some people, like Linus, disagree with me, but I'm not an engineer, I'm an artist who likes the medium of code.