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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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