From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Quote by Knuth Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:06:04 +0200 Message-ID: <878s2j2onn.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87o8bgg6br.fsf@zoho.eu> <20210705154121.GB6395@tuxteam.de> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30080"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:bND9+WQUWaxrjmrk/uAEDbYkQu0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 06 22:06:51 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m0rLH-0007dx-Az for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:06:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52780 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0rLG-0005wP-1w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44730) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0rKj-0005sw-3b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:06:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:43670) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0rKg-00080y-Vo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:06:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m0rKe-0006qE-8x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:06:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131588 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > Maybe Knuth's quote is related to literate programming. Literate programming is a programming paradigm introduced by Donald Knuth in which a computer program is given an explanation of its logic in a natural language, such as English, interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable source code can be generated. The approach is used in scientific computing and in data science routinely for reproducible research and open access purposes. Literate programming tools are used by millions of programmers today. It is? Mix English and macros and source to generate code? Sounds like a bad idea if you ask me but who am I to argue with millions of programmers? Anyone has an example of this? > It is nice to have quotes. Quote wars! I start: You can fire your arrows from the tower of Babylon, but you can NEVER strike God! -- Apocalypse, "X-Men: Apocalypse" (2016) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal