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Programmers must be literate, Donald Knuth tells IET in Turing Lecture

4 pointsby AliCollinsover 14 years ago

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RiderOfGiraffesover 14 years ago
We haven't gone as far as formally adopting literate coding, but we have, over the past few years, been emphasising more and more that code should be written for the maintainers, and that code quality is inversely proportional to WTFs/min.<p>This has then been tempered with a huge dollop of common sense. There are places where the code is subtle, and we continue to work on ways of making it clearer.