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Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)
Literate programming advocates this: Order your code for others to read, not for the compiler. Beautifully typeset your code so one can curl up in bed to read it like a novel. Keep documentation in sync with code. What's not to like about this vision? I have two beefs with it: the ends are insufficiently ambitious by…
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Software EngineeringHistory & Retro Computing2022
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jan 9, 2022 | Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014) by signa11 | 144 | 168 |
| Jan 13, 2025 | Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014) by surprisetalk | 132 | 134 |
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