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If you have to make changes to it, you'd have to read it directly, right?
by guitarbill 7y ago
If you have to make changes to it, you'd have to read it directly, right?
- svat 7y agoI think the idea is that if you want to make changes to an existing program, you get up from your desk, go look at your shelves and pull out the sheaf of paper for that program, read/study it, think about what changes are needed, write down the code changes, then go to the computer and type it up -- only in the last step you're looking at the .web file but only for mechanical transcription from paper to computer. (This is not a joke. Knuth still writes not just his papers/books but even his programs by hand on paper first. And this how TeX was written, according to the person other than Knuth who should know best: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10172924 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10172924)
- db48x 7y agoActually you would go to your bookshelf and get the beautifully typeset book, rather than a sheaf of paper.