The author didn't provide any background about the original Knuth "Literate Programming" paper and subsequent review by McIllroy. Knuth was using that code to d

The author didn't provide any background about the original Knuth "Literate Programming" paper and subsequent review by McIllroy. Knuth was using that code to demonstrate Literate Programming style. While the quote / anecdote was taken a bit out of context, I agree with the fundamental idea: code reuse. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming [2] "Literate Programming" http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/2/97.full.pdf http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/2/97.full.pdf