Comment by WillAdams

I think this is most interestingly framed as an extension of/successor to/alternative for Literate Programming, or at least that's the mental cubbyhole it best fits in for me.

Another recent screed on programming in this vein is John Ousterhout's:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31248641

which similarly, walks up to, but doesn't quite come out in favour of Literate Programming.

EDIT: That said, it is framed as LP in at least one description: https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/smalltalk.html