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literate programming

Summary

literate programming is a computer science term[1]. It draws 303 Wikipedia views per month (computer_science_term category, ranking #14 of 87).[2]

Key Facts

  • literate programming is credited with the discovery of Donald Knuth[3].
  • literate programming's instance of is recorded as computer science term[4].
  • literate programming's subclass of is recorded as imperative programming[5].
  • literate programming's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04zm22j[6].
  • literate programming's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Literate programming[7].
  • literate programming's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/literate-programming[8].
  • literate programming's URL is recorded as https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/comp.programming.literate_FAQ[9].
  • literate programming's Quora topic ID is recorded as Literate-Programming[10].
  • literate programming's GitHub topic is recorded as literate-programming[11].

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Designation and Status

literate programming's instance of is recorded as computer science term[4].

Why It Matters

literate programming draws 303 Wikipedia views per month (computer_science_term category, ranking #14 of 87).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12]

Related Entities

CWEB Donald Knuth WEB

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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