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Together with Donald Knuth developed a new way to document programs: literate programming. This technique is less well known then its deserve. I used literate programming consequently for all my programs. Here I describe the system I use and make a bit advertisement for this fantastic programming style.
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Klein, A. (2013). Literate Programming. In: Stream Ciphers. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5079-4_20
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