Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

literate programming
     
         Combining the use of a {text formatting}
        language such as {TeX} and a conventional programming language
        so as to maintain {documentation} and {source code} together.
     
        Literate programming may use the {inverse comment convention}.
     
        {Perl}'s literate programming system is called {pod}.
     
        (2003-09-24)