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There's nothing to "agree" with Knuth here. He wrote it to demonstrate WEB and literate programming, not because he thought it was the best-fit solution to this
by Avshalom 3y ago
There's nothing to "agree" with Knuth here. He wrote it to demonstrate WEB and literate programming, not because he thought it was the best-fit solution to this task.
- benj111 3y agoOk, but McIlroy was asked to critique it. I suppose you could say that he was asked to critique a literate program, but that seems to me like complaining to Mr Ford, because you asked for a faster horse, and he came back with a car. Literate program is meant to solve a problem. The goal should be finding the best way to solve that problem. Not solving the problem based on some preconceived notion. Perhaps "agree" was the wrong word, but this exchange is remembered for a reason.