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Re:Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong by rattaz on Sunday July 08, 2018 @03:03PM (#17485494)
Hi!

Don't waste time on this. It is obvious rubbish. I took the time to follow these first sentences and it led to wasted time. I'm tempted to build a robot to filter this shite out.

"When I look around at the legacy of literate programming, systems to do so-called semi- or quasi-literate programming dominate. These are systems that focus on generating beautifully typeset documentation without allowing the author to arbitrarily order code."

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Re:Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong by jmiserez on Sunday July 08, 2018 @08:44PM (#17487188)
What is wrong with that sentence? The article looks fine to me.
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Re:Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong by perl4ever on Sunday July 08, 2018 @10:13PM (#17487503)
Possibly that CWEB did allow arbitrarily re-ordered code, so it seems strained to criticize Knuth on that basis?

The problem I always saw with it is that no ordering is necessarily perfect - there might be different optimums for different purposes.

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Re:Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong by lallysingh on Monday July 09, 2018 @07:22AM (#17489418)
Did Knuth use the feature?
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