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Org-mode's modest popularity has always struck me as akin to HTML's in the 90s. It was a way for non-programmers to feel like they were programming. Never found much of an advantage for it over a plain text file, despite having tried.



I don't think you tried very hard. Org-babel alone is enough, but maybe if you're not a programmer.


I am fairly sure I tried harder than you, just a hunch.

It's a hyper-specified case indeed that a neophyte couches a code snippet in prose English to better understand it later. He'll go back to that doc as often as I go back to my high school notes, and he'll find the prose English incomprehensible (code comments generally only make sense to the author at the time they were written. Cite a longwinded comment he made a year ago and ask him to explain it -- he can't).


    Sneer , v. t.
    1. To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to
       utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer
       fulsome lies at a person.


  Your old friend, the brass lantern, is at your feet.

  > SAY, "HELLO AP"

  Nothing happens here.




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