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Code as it is written today is not literature, but Knuth's idea was to make it readable like literature, because you would be mostly reading words, formulas, an

Code as it is written today is not literature, but Knuth's idea was to make it readable like literature, because you would be mostly reading words, formulas, and algorithm descriptions, and code itself would be an incidental detail. Peter Siebel is right. However, he is talking about code as it is written today.

emodendroket 5y ago
Right, but my contention here is that not achievable for reasons Siebel describes: a real program ends up having to have a bunch of stuff extraneous to the main idea most of the time.