The rebuttal itself is a lot more comical than any joke: literally countering Knuth’s “code should read and flow like prose for full understanding” with “f you,

The rebuttal itself is a lot more comical than any joke: literally countering Knuth’s “code should read and flow like prose for full understanding” with “f you, look at what I can do with my 20 years of hacking and thousands of lines of code I’ve never seen, written by someone else”.