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Subject: PHILOSOPHY & CM
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Date: 13 Apr 90 03:10:28 GMT
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 Date: 04-10-90 (09:08)              Number: 3110 (Echo)
   To: GARY SMITH                    Refer#: 3104
 From: JACK BROWN                      Read: NO
 Subj: CHUCK MOORE AND FORTH         Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 >         A well-written program does not need comments.  Alternately,
 >         comments are a crutch to make inteligible a poorly organized
 >         program.
 >

 Well....  If Chuck Moore is right I guess poor old Donald Knuth
 wasted 3-4 years of his life trying to turn TEX into a model literate 
 program.   See the March 1990 issue of the ACM Journal...(towards the 
 back)  for a report on the state of literate programming.

 Literate programming is at the extreme opposite end of the scale from 
 Chuck's postion.  Programs should not only contain comments they should 
 be typeset in beautiful fonts with complete explanations of the 
 algorithms embedded in the text.  Ideally you have a literate 
 programming environment that allows you to develop both your code and 
 prose simultaneously.

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