literate programming

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

literate programming
LitProg

   <programming, text> Combining the use of a {text formatting}
   language such as {TeX} and a conventional programming language
   so as to maintain {documentation} and {source code} together.

   Literate programming may use the {inverse comment convention}.

   {Perl}'s literate programming system is called {pod}.

   (2003-09-24)