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Examples of literate programming by Knuth
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…generates a .tex file), and then typeset. In this case, I have a (not very up-to-date) repo at https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs of the literate programs from Knuth's website, and othello.pdf is here:…
comment by svat · 2024-06-01 · in Donald E. Knuth's Homepage -
…case study of the ADVENTURE program ( http://literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf or download from https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs/blob/m... for working hyperlinks). I think that even though the program was written…
comment by svat · 2020-12-31 · in Interview Transcript – Donald Knuth [pdf] -
…of them are in CWEB so to help people who don't have `cweave` installed, I typeset them in 2017: https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs/tree/m... — I ought to update the repository sometime.)
comment by svat · 2020-04-17 · in For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression -
…towards details of the program code itself.) As that's a large example, pick a small one like this: https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs/blob/m... -- there is an intro page about the problem and cache size etc., but most…
comment by svat · 2020-02-28 · in Was Knuth Really Framed? -
…and keeps most of them to himself; the ones published online before Sep 2017 I had typeset here: https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs -- I ought to clean up and refresh that stuff.) - Finally, WEB arose out of certain…
comment by svat · 2020-02-25 · in Donald Knuth was framed -
…gazine.org/mathematician-solves-computer... [10]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20531987 [11]: https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs/blob/9... [12]: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html#7 [13]:…
comment by svat · 2019-08-02 · in Knuth on Huang's Sensitivity Proof: “I've got the proof down to one page” [pdf] -
…dance.w from his website (or if you don't have cweave handy, download the program from here: https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs/blob/m... and click around on the hyperlinks) — all the backtracking happens inside “main”;…
comment by svat · 2018-12-18 · in The Yoda of Silicon Valley -
…the ones that Knuth writes mainly for himself (see https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html or https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs/tree/m... ). I don't think continuing to work on it, versus calling them done for now,…
comment by svat · 2018-07-10 · in Show HN: Anansi – a NoWeb-inspired literate programming preprocessor -
…is his natural activity, so everything is optimized for that. I read a few of Knuth's programs ( https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs/tree/m... ) a while ago, the intended way: printed them out and read them while sitting…
comment by svat · 2018-07-08 · in Show HN: Anansi – a NoWeb-inspired literate programming preprocessor -
…s://twitter.com/svat/status/913114286951505920 , https://twitter.com/svat/status/885344334735745024 , https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs/blob/m... ) — so it seems really hard to understand that a comment that seems to be…
comment by svat · 2018-05-26 · in 30 years later, QBasic is still the best -
…if you don't have the patience to install CWEB and run cweave+tex on them, I've typeset them here: https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs/tree/m... — last updated September; needs another update.)
comment by svat · 2018-02-12 · in Who is the longest-serving programmer? -
…to read and run those programs respectively; if you just want to read I've typeset them here: https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs/tree/1... ) Knuth has also given a couple of talks about satisfiability around the time he…
comment by svat · 2018-01-22 · in Donald Knuth turns 80, seeks problem-solvers for The Art of Computer Programming -
…[7]: http://www.cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html (I've generated PDF versions: https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs/tree/1... )
comment by svat · 2017-10-11 · in Handwriting Programs in J