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Define the word literate programming

"literate programming" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"

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)