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		elviejo on Sept 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What do you wish more programmers cared ab... Literate programming. This is an idea that keeps being reinvented. The names I have seen are: Readme driven development. Documentation driven development. Executable documentation. And many more..

macando on Sept 3, 2021 [–]

This is the way. Sadly, it never took off.

DDD is another great approach that never entered mainstream.

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