Appendix B - Slides

The follow are slides from an SVFIG presentation on February 25, 2012.

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Literate Programming in Forth

Brad Nelson

February 25, 2012.

Literate Programming

• Conceived of by Donald Knuth.
• Emphasize documentation over code.
• Pre-process source code to extract it from documentation which may list it in narratively use order.

Use the Forth Parser

• Forth allows words to parse input source in mostly arbitrary ways.
• Indirection through an output file is unfortunately needed for ANSFORTH.
• Careful use of escaping.
• Use the pipe (|) character as the primary divider as it is rare in Forth.

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