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The Concept of Literate Programming

Co-defens was using this for like a few months and then he gave up on it I guess. Aaron never said you should be able to just look at the code and understand he said read my thesis instead where it explains it so that's true. He wrote 100 pages or so on it uh and then threw it out very Arthur Whitney asked well you know sometimes the the act of writing something and throwing it away and then starting over is just the process to get something that's clear and worksWell oh definitelyUh the one of the tragedies of the software industry is that it's possible to subject our prototypes to real world conditions like if somebody designs a bridge and they make a nice little model

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