But Bentley chose the program. He chose a task that's suited to a few lines of shell and asked Knuth to apply Literate Programming to it. Complaining that the r

But Bentley chose the program. He chose a task that's suited to a few lines of shell and asked Knuth to apply Literate Programming to it. Complaining that the result is overworked seems disingenuous - like asking someone to apply the MVC pattern to fizzbuzz and then asking why they used such a verbose approach to such a simple problem.