2009/7/9 Micah Stetson <mi...@stetsonnet.org>: >> Why would it take a book? DMR made the point succinctly in his >> critique of Knuth's literate program, showing how a few command-line >> utilities do the work of the Don's elaborately constructed tries. > > Do you have a URL for this?
I looked this up yesterday, and there is some discussion on literateprogramming.com -- the discussion actually illustrates how to take the shell script and make *it* literate programming instead. It actually wasn't DMR, it was McIlroy. > Micah --dho