23 Nov
2011
23 Nov
'11
2:25 p.m.
From: Charlie Carothers
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:18 PM
Maybe what software development really needs is a
language where the
comments *are* the code?
...and we come full circle.
*That* was Knuth's point in creating Literate Programming.
Just for the record, I made changes to TeX in the late 1990s to allow
the use of larger fonts on the TOPS-20 operating system (which had been
restricted to 128-character fonts by the usual use of 7-bit ASCII in
text files). No bugs were introduced, and the sources in web were very
good guides to the necessary changes. Neither tangle nor weave was
unhappy with my changes.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/