I agree with you as long as we are talking about this blog post and not about Knuth's article or McIlroy's critique, which I don't have access to. Knuth republ

I agree with you as long as we are talking about this blog post and not about Knuth's article or McIlroy's critique, which I don't have access to. Knuth republished both, so they must have some things to say about Literate Programming.