Literate programming is the combination of documentation and source together in a fashion suited for reading by human beings. In general, literate programs combine source and documentation in a single file. Literate programming tools then parse the file to produce either readable documentation or compilable source. The WEB style of literate programming was created by D. E. Knuth during the development of his TeX typesetting software.
Discussion of literate programming is conducted in the newsgroup comp.programming.literate, which is gatewayed to the mailing list litprog@shsu.edu (see subscribing to mailing lists for details). The literate programming FAQ is stored as help/LitProg-FAQ