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No true scotsman. It's more literate programming than not and chasing the promise of the ideal literate programming environment is what created the novel noteb
by musingsole 6y ago
No true scotsman.
It's more literate programming than not and chasing the promise of the ideal literate programming environment is what created the novel notebook environment in the first place.
- konjin 6y ago1). Notebooks were invented by Mathematica in the 80s. 2). Words have meanings and literate programming is defined extremely well by Knuth in his 1983 paper. This is not what was described there any more than the WWW is Xanadu. 3). That is not what No True Scotsman means.
- contravariant 6y ago> That is not what No True Scotsman means. Setting aside whether you are or are not right, can we just appreciate the irony in that statement for a moment?