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Tags: literate programming
Inspiration: Donald Knuth

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

The practitioner of literate programming can be regarded as an essayist, whose main concern is with exposition and excellence of style.

---Donald Knuth. "Literate Programming (1984)

Last published: Monday 17th May 2010

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