&gt; &quot;These are systems that focus on generating beautifully typeset documentation without allowing the author to arbitrarily order code.&quot;<p>The previous sentence was: &quot;When I look around at the legacy of literate programming, systems to do so-called semi- or quasi-literate programming dominate.&quot; Semi- or quasi- being intended to distinguish with classic literate programming as in CWeb.<p>I usually try to go out of my way to assume that if someone misunderstands me it&#x27;s a failure of my writing, but in this case my post is filled with Knuth&#x27;s original CWeb programs. It didn&#x27;t seem realistic that you missed them all, or that you thought I missed that CWeb permits reordering in spite of having read so many CWeb programs.<p>And then you make this new jab about me not having read any literate programs, in spite of me showing repeatedly in the article that I went all the way down the list at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu&#x2F;~uno&#x2F;programs.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu&#x2F;~uno&#x2F;programs.html</a>. Are you sure <i>you</i> read <i>my</i> post?<p>---<p>Thanks for the pointer to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mmix.cs.hm.edu&#x2F;local" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mmix.cs.hm.edu&#x2F;local</a>. Not immediately obvious that it cares about literate programming, but I&#x27;ll take your word for it. I&#x27;d appreciate intros to anybody in that group with experience reading literate programs (email address in profile).