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Literate Programming (1983)
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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.
Donald Knuth
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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January 10, 1938
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