22 Mar
2018
22 Mar
'18
6:07 p.m.
On 2018-03-22 12:30 PM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Chris Fraser (AT&T Bell Labs at the time).
As you say, the whole book is a literate program:
https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Hanson-Retargetable-C-C…
Knuth offered the remedy of "literate
programming", which
might help in academic circles. In business, probably not.
IMHO this is too bad. Code I've written using LP is generally
more correct earlier on than otherwise. And it's very enjoyable
to write code and explanation at the same time; I feel like I'm
talking out loud directly to my reader, a person, and not just
coding for myself or the compiler.
Significant proofs by example are Knuth's TeX and MetaFont,
and the lcc compiler by Dave Hanson and <I forgot>.
Shameless plug: I have written a small LP system in gawk designed
for use with the Texinfo markup language. ...
Thanks,
Arnold