On Dec 14, 2010 8:47am, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 12/14/2010 02:34 PM, Jonathan BISSON wrote:
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> > Jeff Horn gmail.com> writes:
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> >> I think what Chris was referring to is the fact that you can write
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> >> literate programs using org-mode and org-babel. You can mix
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> >> documentation and code, and then run some nifty functions that
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> >> separate them out. The advantage, of course, is that your source is
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> > Yes, but an org file with babel is not python native. So I needed for one
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> > of my projects an orgmode translator that is totally python native.
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> > org-babel is nice for orgfiles doing computations but not for software
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> What about tangling? When you tangle your org file, you get a source
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Tangling is what I had in mind for my comment. It seems like an easy way to have literate programming...

Chris