Lightweight Literate Programming: A Documentation Practice    

Lightweight literate programming (LLP) combines software documentation and coding in a way that can scaffold collaborations between technical communicators and programmers. We review the genesis and history of LLP, including its relationship to established single-sourcing methods. We then detail its use by programmers and discuss two models for writer/programmer collaboration using LLP. We finish by suggesting a few studies of working relationships between writers and programmers that LLP could facilitate.

Stavely, Allan, Lynda Walsh and John Shipman. Technical Communication Online (2008). Articles>Documentation>Programming>Methods