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OK, now tell whose technique is more likely to lead to TeX or Google Brain: Knuth's Literate Programming, or McIlroy's "everything worth doing is already a Unix
by reagency 11y ago
OK, now tell whose technique is more likely to lead to TeX or Google Brain: Knuth's Literate Programming, or McIlroy's "everything worth doing is already a Unix built-in"?
- gnaritas 11y agoMcIlroy's, because he'll finish; that's kind of the point, good engineers ship and reuse as much as possible. Look at all the work of DJB[1], nearly everything he does is just a bunch of well tied together shell scripts. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein
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