Again, if it's a comment saying "we need this hack because the hardware doesn't support anything", I don't call it "literate programming".

Literate programming seems to be the idea that you should write prose next to the code, because code "is difficult to understand". I disagree with that. Most good code is simple to understand (doesn't mean it's easy to write good code).

And the comments here prove my point, I believe: whenever I ask for examples where a comment is needed, the answer is something very rare and specific (e.g. a hardware limitation). The answer to that is comments where those rare and specific situations arise. Not a whole concept of "literate programming".