About

This software was initially developed for my diploma thesis (german only):
Steffen Ernst - Literate Programming in Eclipse

It is made publicly available under the Apache 2.0 License. The source code is included in the jar file of the plugin. To contact me use the forums or LiterateEclipseProgramming (at) hotmail.de

To display a PDF inside of eclipse, JPedal is used. (http://www.jpedal.org)

The main goal of the software is a simplified usage and by this a more widespread usage of literate programming. Literate Programming was introduced 1984 by Donald Knuth. It strengthens the role of the documentation by embedding the source code in the documentation. For that the code can be split into arbitrary small parts to explain it in detail. The parts are linked to form a complete program.

More about literate programming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
http://www.literateprogramming.com/

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