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gmfawcett
on Dec 17, 2018
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The Yoda of Silicon Valley
To his great credit, Knuth included McIlroy's critique, in full and without response, when he published
Literate Programming
. Knuth also conceded in an earlier chapter that literate programming was probably a crazy idea and that promoting it was perhaps an act of madness! It's delightful that we live in a world where there's room both for industrial-strength Fabergé eggs and hack-it-together pipelines. :)
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