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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread Programming
"It's beautiful just if it works at all," he says of a program. "If it, um, uh, if it's a literate programming, it's beautiful." A good test is that you yourself understand the code and can look back on it years later to see how well-written it is.
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