Extended Abstract

Human beings are good in ideas and abstractions. Developing Software is a process that expands the documentation with details that are close to the machine. It is becoming increasingly difficult to trace a given detail to the requirements at the later phases of the development. Donald Knuth proposed “Literate Programming ” in 1984 which changes the traditional approaches to the construction of programs. Instead of having the main task as instructing a computer what needs to be done, the focus should be on explaining to human beings what the stakeholders want a computer to do. Instead of writing code containing documentation, the literate programmer writes documentation containing code. The "program " then becomes primarily a document written for humans. Writing a literate program is a lot more work than writing a program in a chosen programming language. An artisan quickly sees the art to be created in a crude material on hand. For Example: A sculptor instinctively selects the stone on which the art takes form. It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide on a correct solution while building complex software. “Literate Programming ” may give the developers the handles for selecting correc