http://literateprogramming.com/
and the publication of:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/499934.Computers_Typeset...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746886.Computers_Typese...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8981752-physically-based...
would argue against this.
Esp. see: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112245.Literate_Programm...
The largest project I ever did (typesetting back-end for an on-line interactive ad design system) was done as a literate program, and over the course of years of maintenance was far easier to work with than other smaller code bases which I hadn't taken the effort to so structure and document.
Arguably, I need to re-work my present project thus: https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/