19 Nov
2011
19 Nov
'11
9:08 a.m.
On 19/11/11 1:01 AM, Richard wrote:
In article<4EC708D5.7000306 at
telegraphics.com.au>,
Toby Thain<toby at telegraphics.com.au> writes:
TL;DR: Literate programming is a failure because people are too lazy to
read.
--Toby
On 18/11/11 2:07 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
Also, TeX is pretty feature complete being as it is an implementation
of a domain specific programming language for typesetting. ...
Its implementation is purely procedural; no modules,
no abstractions, no objects and no attempt to create interfaces that
hide details. TeX's implementation is *all* details all the time.
Knuth's attempt at "literate programming", to write a book that
documents the implementation and shows you the implementation at the
same time by interleaving prose and source code is IMO a complete and
utter failure. On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:30:59 -0500 (EST)
Mouse<mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
TeX is only bug-free in the limiting case. I don't expect any software to be bug-free.
TeX? ;-)