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I disagree. You would only think the actual implementation is an implementation detail if you don't have to ship things, as academics like Knuth don't. There is
by whipoodle 9y ago
I disagree. You would only think the actual implementation is an implementation detail if you don't have to ship things, as academics like Knuth don't. There is more to learn from it than just that, but I think that's a clear point here.
- taeric 9y agoI'm not sure I follow your point. What do you disagree with from what I said? The task given to Knuth was to display literate programming using a somewhat toy program. He did so. McIlroy showed how to solve the toy program. Oddly, Knuth's is the one I would reach for as part of my program. McIlroy's is the one I use interactively all the time. Literally last week I did basically that pipeline in my shell about ten times during log dives. If I found that elastic search or some other tool was doing something like that pipeline on my queries, I would be rather unhappy. Not to mention I would find a hella easy speed up by rewriting it. That said, I am now highly interested in benchmarking those two programs. Would be curious to see the results, if someone else already has.