What's the inverse of literate programming.

One of my favorite ideas in programming that hasn't ever quite worked is literate programing. Literate programming explores how the act of writing and reading software might work if we blended code and documentation–the how and the why–much more closely, usually in the same file.

As I reflect back on writing my book, I wish I had tools to do the opposite: powerful, easily extensible tools to write books. I guess we could call it "programmable literacy", if we had to manufacture a...