Abstract An Elucidative Programming Environment for Scheme

In this paper we describe a programming environment for Scheme that supports elucidative programming. Scheme is a programming language in the Lisp family. Elucidative programming is a variant of literate programming. Literate programming represents the idea of structuring the program as fragments that are contained in an essay that documents the program understanding. Elucidative programming is in a similar way based on the ideas of documented program understanding, but in contrast to literate programming, elucidative programming leaves the program intact. The relations between the documentation and the units of the program are defined without use of containment. Whereas most literate programming tools produce paper output of the literate program, the elucidative tools are oriented towards presentation in a WWW browser.