Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Knuth talked about "Literate Programming" over forty years ago, but what does it mean to have code that a developer and a client can agree on? Dr Robert Chatley of Imperial College London demonstrates how it might work.

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