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There has been much discussion about how this post is highly misleading. See • Hillel Wayne, "Donald Knuth Was Framed": https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/ar
by svat 5y ago
There has been much discussion about how this post is highly misleading. See
• Hillel Wayne, "Donald Knuth Was Framed": https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/donald-knuth-was-framed/ https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/donald-knuth-wa...
• me, various comments, including https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22407313 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22407313 in the comments on that post, linking to older/other comments.
- dang 5y agoI added that one to the list of past threads here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039164. Thanks!
- CrazyStat 5y agoThank you. This story comes up from time to time and I hate it. Knuth was asked to illustrate literate programming style, and he did so. The request was not "show us how to find the most frequently occurring words in a file." McIlroy's response would be fine for the latter and utterly useless for the former (and actual) request.