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May 5, 2014 at 10:58
Literate natural language programming, with a hybrid unit-test/debugger tool! http://t.co/fnDTnVhm4X

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Apr 28, 2018 at 11:59
It's too easy to get excited about time tracking, tags, and literate programming when starting out with org-mode. It has a huge featureset. I'd encourage new users just to treat it as a better markdown-mode, and learn about folding and links, before diving in to the rest.
Aug 17, 2017 at 22:35
The challenge with literate programming is separating the important details from glue code. Some code is boring or self-documenting.