In my experience, when you say &quot;literate programming&quot;, most people think perl POD or literate Haskell before CWEB and similar.  This was certainly the case for me before making a point of reading what Knuth had actually written (some many years back).  I think that&#x27;s unfortunate, and I think it&#x27;s valuable to educate people that there&#x27;s more ideas there than present in some of these systems, and that there are systems supporting more.  But I think there are more constructive ways than ascribing malfeasance or incompetence to what seems itself a useful (if not maximally useful) piece of education.