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> "Following Dr. Knuth’s doctrine helps to ward off moronry. He is known for introducing the notion of “literate programming,” emphasizing the importance of wri
by sailfast 8y ago
> "Following Dr. Knuth’s doctrine helps to ward off moronry. He is known for introducing the notion of “literate programming,” emphasizing the importance of writing code that is readable by humans as well as computers — a notion that nowadays seems almost twee."
I liked a lot of this profile, but this came off as kind of weird.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 8y agoI seem to remember older programming languages (COBOL?) being far closer to English-as-spoken as they are today, using, for example Do/END instead of today’s more common c-style { and }.
- Roboprog 8y agoLiterate programming has next to nothing to do with “English like grammars” or “self documenting” tongue twister symbol table names. It has to do with writing documentation, and embedding little bits of code to do what the documentation describes, with a special build process to create the compiled program from the snippets within the documentation. It’s kind of the inverse of Javadoc.