pipelines: Diomidis Spinellis blog: Was Knuth Really Framed by Jon Bentley?
https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20200225/ Recently, the formal methods specialist Hillel Wayne <https://www.hillelwayne.com/about/> posted an interesting article <https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/donald-knuth-was-framed/> discussing whether Donald Knuth was actually framed when Jon Bentley asked him to demonstrate literate programming <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming#Critique>. (Knuth came up with an 8-page long monolithic listing, whereas in a critique Doug McIlroy provided a six line shell script.) .... worth reading.
The edX course "Unix Tools: Data, Software and Production Engineering" linked starts on 17 March https://www.edx.org/course/unix-tools-data-software-and-production-engineeri... On 1/3/20 10:17 am, Rodney Brown wrote:
https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20200225/
Recently, the formal methods specialist Hillel Wayne <https://www.hillelwayne.com/about/> posted an interesting article <https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/donald-knuth-was-framed/> discussing whether Donald Knuth was actually framed when Jon Bentley asked him to demonstrate literate programming <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming#Critique>. (Knuth came up with an 8-page long monolithic listing, whereas in a critique Doug McIlroy provided a six line shell script.) ....
worth reading.
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