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- From: wald@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David Wald)
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- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 13:47:55 GMT
- Organization: Theory of Computation, LCS, MIT
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- In-reply-to: jhd@herold.franken.de's message of 18 Mar 1996 23:00:00 +0100
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- In article <657x41QF3RB@herold.franken.de> jhd@herold.franken.de
- (Joachim Durchholz) writes:
- >seebs@solutions.solon.com wrote 18.03.96 on Re: Beware of "C" Hackers
- >-- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer:
- >> I mean, who can honestly claim Knuth *isn't* a hacker, in the traditional
- >> sense?
-
- >Umm, I'll grant Don Knuth is a hacker, and has advanced theory and
- >practice in ways too numerous to mention here. But his style is horrific -
- >you can't explain algorithms in a mixture of flow diagrams and assembler
- >code. And TeX as a language is a nightmare, even if it is the best system
- >available for automatic mathematical typesetting.
-
- I assume you're talking about the style in The Art of Computer
- Programming. If so, take a look at the formatted code for TeX itself.
- I'm still not convinced that literate programming tools are ideal for
- code development, but TeX is the first program I ever saw that I could
- comfortably read through like a book.
-
- -David
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