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> if the right thing to do is difficult and the wrong thing is easy & tempting That's not what I meant by linking to the Knuth piece. The deficiency lies in th
by cxr 6y ago
> if the right thing to do is difficult and the wrong thing is easy & tempting
That's not what I meant by linking to the Knuth piece. The deficiency lies in the language that doesn't allow you to start off doing the easy thing and then make it "right" through further dialogue, keeping the starting point easy.
I'm pretty sure this is the real intent behind Knuth's focus on literate programming.